Beast Quote by Joseph de Maistre Download Open image “The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.” — Joseph de Maistre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beast Concepts Distinction Logic Math Men Numbers Numbers and math Obvious Reasoning
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm,… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding… — Phillip W. Simpson Copy Share
The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The negative reactions to 'The Number of the Beast' were strange. When we wrote it, we never expected anything like that. — Steve Harris Copy Share Image
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“The facts are that an essential difference exists between man and beast. Human nature is sui generis; it has its own character and attributes.… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not.… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
“Thus is worked out, from maggots up to man, the universal law of the violent destruction of living beings. The whole earth, continually steeped… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen… — Joseph de Maistre 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 acquires rhythm,… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul… — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all,… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The American people are incredibly generous and even playful when you open yourself up and feed the media beast until it goes away satisfied. — Krystal Ball Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image