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Beast Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
- He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
- ...at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory...
- The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning,…
- Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss.
- Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great…
- All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back…
More Beast Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman
- 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
- Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do. — Brigitte Bardot
- Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. — Aeschylus
- I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset. — Cate Blanchett
- We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white… — Daniel Boone
- Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes… — Robert Browning
- As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses… — A. S. Byatt
- In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable… — A. S. Byatt
- A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. — Albert Camus