Anthropomorphism Quotes

“I felt that the ducks should be a little more human than they were. I gave them clothes and houses and cars.”

“In the study of animal behavior, we must be careful not to attribute to them our own human feelings and motivations.”

“But mortals suppose that gods are born, wear their own clothes and have a voice and body.”

“The tendency to anthropomorphize is the most deeply seated of all the fallacies of human thinking.”

“The Ethiopians say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, while the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.”

“But if cattle and horses and lions had hands or could paint with their hands and create works of art like men, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle.”