"I can well conceive a man without hands,……" — Blaise Pascal
"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head.... But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would bea stone or a brute."
More Brute Quotes
- Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. — Thomas Carlyle
- A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:… — Margaret Cavendish
- The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. — Lord Chesterfield
- I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the… — Lord Chesterfield
- The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the… — Anthony Gregory
- Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the… — D. H. Lawrence
- In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his… — Kano Jigoro
- Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do. — Kenneth Grahame
- I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that… — Charles Darwin
- Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in… — Mahatma Gandhi