If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Do not press an enemy at bay. Prince Fu Ch'ai said: "Wild beasts, when at bay, fight desperately. How much more is… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“A short while later, as I stare down at the bodies of the six men I have just killed, I cannot help… — R.L. LaFevers Copy Share Image
[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while… — Evalyn Walsh McLean Copy Share Image
In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
“I reached out and took Beast’s hand. Our fingers twined together and I knew, I just knew right there, that he was… — James Cox Copy Share Image
The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and… — William Beckford Copy Share Image
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts. — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Alas, so all things now do hold their peace: Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing: The beasts, the air, the birds… — Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Copy Share Image
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us.… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
An pretend and evil friend is haughty to be feared than a unmanageable beast; a unmanageable beast may mouthful your build up,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
See with your soul and not your eyes because to dance with the beasts you must penetrate their disguise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am anti-life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds…of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It was like a scene straight out of Beauty and the Beast. I kept waiting for a teapot to start singing.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities. — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
I always loved Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast'. I always thought I looked like her, so I dressed like her for… — Sofia Carson Copy Share Image
“Am I, then, a beast, that I should risk my life merely for the sake of my body, and for the purpose… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the… — Henry Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
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