Beast Quotes
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In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.
Demosthenes
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I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.
Emil Cioran
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Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
W. L. George
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Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks
Wallace Smith Broecker
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Writing is the beast unto itself.
Omar Epps
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Desire is a beast that must be fed!
Eric Jerome Dickey
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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'
Karl Kraus
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I, too, would find out that old age is a brute, ferocious beast.
Elena Ferrante
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Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.
George Washington
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A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had.
J. Christopher Herold
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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
Tom Stoppard
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A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Beware the beast, but enjoy the feast he offers.
Tuomas Holopainen
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