... man is the animal that moralizes. Man is also the animal that complains about being one, and says that there is an animal, a beast inside him—that he is brother to dragons. (He is certainly a brother to wolves, and to pandas too, but he is father to dragons, not brother: they, like many gods and devils, are inventions of his.)


On the Underside of the Stone, p. 177 - Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)

Randall Jarrell Quotes

Man is the animal that moralizes. Man is also the animal that complains about being one, and says that there is an animal, a beast inside him—that...

Man is the animal that moralizes. Man is also the animal that complains about being one, and says that there is an animal, a beast inside him—that...

Man is the animal that moralizes. Man is also the animal that complains about being one, and says that there is an animal, a beast inside him—that...

Man is the animal that moralizes. Man is also the animal that complains about being one, and says that there is an animal, a beast inside him—that...