“Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.”

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.

Anyone who hates children and animals can’t be all bad.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.