"As we to the brutes, poets are to…" — George Meredith
"As we to the brutes, poets are to us."
More Brutes Quotes
- Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. — Thomas Carlyle
- Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri
- 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
- Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men!… — Swami Vivekananda
- Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only,… — Gottfried Leibniz
- 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