Anthropomorphism Quotes

• There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us.

  David Hume

  Hurt, Army, Moon

  David Hume (1957). “The Natural History of Religion”, p.29, Stanford University Press

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• Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Understanding, Dross

  Albert Einstein (2011). "Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words", p.25, Open Road Media

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• ¿Qué es entonces la verdad? Una hueste móvil de metáforas, metonimias y antropomorfismos: en resumen, una suma de relaciones humanas que han sido poética y retóricamente intensificadas, transferidas y embellecidas, y que, tras un largo uso, a un pueblo le parecen fijas, canónicas y vinculantes. Las verdades son ilusiones que hemos olvidado que son ilusiones: son metáforas que se han desgastado y se han vaciado de fuerza sensual.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Largo, Gente, Anfitrión

  Friedrich Nietzsche "Obras completas Delphi de Friedrich Nietzsche (Ilustradas): Friedrich Nietzsche", Delphi Classics

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• We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions and traits) is, however, outdated. Rather we know that we are like animals.

  Michael Fox

  Animal, Emotion, Evolution

  Michael W. Fox (1980). “One Earth, One Mind”, Coward McCann

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• I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

  A. S. Byatt

  Christian, Self, Worry

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• In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced.

  Georges Canguilhem

  Men, Views, Long

  "Knowledge of Life".

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• La verdad es un ejército móvil de metáforas, metonimias, antropomorfismos, en suma, una suma de relaciones humanas que han sido sometidas a intensificación, traducción y decoración poéticas y retóricas [...]; las verdades son ilusiones de las que hemos olvidado que son ilusiones, metáforas que se han desgastado por el uso frecuente y han perdido todo vigor sensual [...]. Sin embargo, seguimos sin saber de dónde viene el impulso hacia la verdad, pues hasta ahora sólo hemos oído hablar de la obligación de ser veraz que impone la sociedad para poder existir" de, "Sobre la verdad y la mentira en un sentido no moral".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mentira, Ejército, Orden

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• Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

  Lars Svendsen

  Profound, Boredom, Anthropocentrism

  Lars Svendsen (2005). “A Philosophy of Boredom”, p.88, Reaktion Books

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• Talk of belief in these animals is not some kind of anthropomorphism. We simply cannot explain the kinds of problem solving and behavioral sophistication some species exhibit without supposing that they have genuine beliefs. But once these ethologists finish making the case for animal belief, they quickly move to talk of animal knowledge as well. What I argue is that this is not a mere façon de parler.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Moving, Animal, Supposing That

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Como muchos baby boomers, me crié con un antropomorfismo arcaico. Perros cristianos honrados. Conejos con valores familiares. Porque los textos e imágenes antiguos eran sagrados: Potter, Milne y los demás. Incluso los padres preocupados que conocían a Freud y Jung nunca vieron las contradicciones de alimentarnos con ellos.

  Peter York

  Cristiano, Bebé, Perro

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