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Quotation from History of Animals by Aristotle
“But man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. No other animal but man has the power of recollection”
History of Animals, Book I, Ch. I, §16, trans. Richard Cresswell (1862)
At the end of his survey of animal temperaments, Aristotle names what sets human beings apart.
Citation: "But man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. No other animal but man has the power of recollection" — Aristotle, History of Animals, Book I, Ch. I, §16, trans. Richard Cresswell (1862). (id aristotle-history-of-animals-q2)
