“Before being humans, we are animals.”
Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001), p. 26 (also on p. 4)
Jean Vanier: Philosopher.. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jean-vanier-philosopher-who-dislikes-the-religion-of-success-wins-12m-templeton-prize-for-promoting-spiritual-awareness-10101621.html The Independent, 11 March 2015
From interviews and talks
“Before being humans, we are animals.”
Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001), p. 26 (also on p. 4)
Letter to Barrett Wendell (19 July 1919)
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)
“Being comes before well-being.”
As quoted by Chief Justice John Greig Latham in his sole dissent in Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth (1951), for his argument that defence is the pre-eminent responsibility of the state
Attributed
“Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.”
Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 1, The Origins Of Altruism, p. 3
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 34, quote is from Institut für Sozialforschung
“When I draw, 1 am as pre-occupied before a gas-jet as before a human being.”
Lane, The Paintings of Albert Marquet p. 188; as quoted in 'Appendix' of Albert Marquet and the Fauve movement, 1898-1908, Norris Judd, published 1976, - translation Norris Judd - Thesis (A.B.)--Sweet Briar College, p. 116
“Movement will cease before we are weary of being useful.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 316.
Source: Chiaki Mukai – Astronaut - The Heroine Collective http://www.theheroinecollective.com/chiaki-mukai-astronaut/