Animal Cunning

Famous quotes containing the words animal and/or cunning:

    “The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)