Brutes Quotes

• Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

  Aldous Huxley

  Language Words, Levels, Able

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

  Amelia Barr

  Men, Treats

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• The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Reading, Cows, Pleasure

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• My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Leader, Shooting

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

  Havelock Ellis

  Mean, Men, Charm

  Havelock Ellis (1912). “The Task of Social Hygiene”

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• They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

  Joseph Conrad

  Weakness, Want, Force

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.8, Xist Publishing

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• Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Affection, Caught

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157

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• For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

  Dante Alighieri

  Power, Evil, Defense

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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• The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Learning, Men, Singing

  Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.2

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• The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Wings, States

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Play, Safety

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Strong Opinions”, p.155, Penguin UK

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• "Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.78, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Suicide, Men, Looks

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.233, Wildside Press LLC

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• If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

  Edmund Husserl

  Animal, Reality, Law

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Hands, Feet

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Exterminate all the brutes!

  Abel Korzeniowski

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  Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

  Dante Alighieri

  Knowledge, Men, Divine Comedy

  'Divina Commedia' 'Inferno' canto 26, l. 118

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• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Heart, Sacrifice

  1843 'The Black Cat', in the United States Saturday Post,19 Aug.

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• All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Intellectual, Mind, Facts

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• Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, Poison, Beast

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes, and a Life of the Author”, p.251

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• We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Government, Historical

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.320, Penguin

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• Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Education, Stupid, Hands

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

  Herman Melville

  Horse, Forever, Special

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.222, Herman Melville

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• Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Memories, Men, Practice

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