Beast Quote by Baruch Spinoza

“Mankind's most dangerous enemy is the human imagination. What their minds can imagine is far more malicious than the deepest furnaces of their chimerical…

— C.J. Anderson

And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man…

— Bible

“Beasts avoid the dangers which they see, and when they have escaped them are free from care; but we men torment ourselves over that…

— Seneca

“Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence...and many of their tragedies are…

— T.F. Hodge

No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first…

— John Ruskin

“And even if it were possible to permanently banish everything threatening—everything dangerous (and, therefore, everything challenging and interesting), that would mean only that another…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in which, therefore,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really…

— William Hazlitt

“Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster. To these…

— William Stolzenburg

“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.”

— Herman Melville

“Man, it is true, can, by combination, surmount all his real enemies, and become master of the whole animal creation: but does he not…

— David Hume

I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with…

— Charles Brockden Brown