Quotes About Animality

The study of the appearance of animals takes on interest when we understand this appearance as a language. We must grasp the mystery of life in the way that animals show themselves to each other...There is a specular relation between animals: each is the mirror of the other...What exists are not separated animals, but an inter-animality...The identity of that which sees and that which it sees appears to be an ingredient of animality.

Just as there is an Ineinander of life and physiochemistry, i.e., the realization of life as a fold or a singularity of physiochemistry--or structure, so to is the human to be taken in the Ineinander with animality and Nature.

All zoology assumes from our side a methodical Einfühlung into animal behavior, with the participation of the animal in our perceptive life and the participation of our perceptive life in animality.

?nsan, hayvan oldu?unu bilen, dolay?s?yla hayvan gibi davranmama seçene?ine sahip tek hayvand?r.