2 Quotes About Anthropomorphization
Most of us have a hard time understanding or even recognizing the difference between things that are alive and things that are not. Life, after all, is a purely physical phenomenon. It’s been said that all our notions of spirituality, divinity, and the supernatural rest on the assumption that things which seem non-material have a spirit or soul. In other words, that life is not material
In the animal world, we find no such difficulty in distinguishing between life and non-life. A dead plant or animal has no ability to think or feel; yet we never hesitate to attribute thought and feeling to living beings. Why? Because we cannot help ourselves: we anthropomorphize everything we observe and deal with.
Here is a collection of wise and funny quotes about anthropomorphization and its consequences for our daily lives.