Beasts Quotes

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

King of the animals - as thou hast described him - I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest - because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth .

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.