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"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."
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"Years later, after other experiences with dogs, I wondered if their species were shaped and charmed to serve as four-legged guides able to assist in leading humanity back to our first-and lost-home. By the example of their joy and humility, by wanting nothing more than food and play and love, by the deep satisfaction that they take from those humble things, they belie all creeds of power and fame. Although they have the teeth to tear, it is by swish of tail and yearning eyes that they most easily get what they want."
"I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human."
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
"Always remember, animals can intimidate men with their strength but men cannot intimidate animals with their intelligence."
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"The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous."
"The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology."
"Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer."
"There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform."
"It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal."
"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine."
"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man."
"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."
"On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character."
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