Oscar Wilde about reason (“The Picture of Dorian Gray”, 1890) - I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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“ I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational. ”
 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). copy citation

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Oscar Wilde about reason (“The Picture of Dorian Gray”, 1890) - I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
Oscar Wilde about reason (“The Picture of Dorian Gray”, 1890) - I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.