Home » Quote » Robert A. Heinlein » „Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.“ „Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.“ — Robert A. Heinlein Tags:Animals Related quotes „Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily“ — Marcus Aurelius „The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.“ — Marcus Aurelius „This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.“ — George Orwell „In the constitution of that rational animal I see no virtue which is opposed to justice, but I see a virtue which is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.“ — Marcus Aurelius