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«No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short»
Author: Thomas Hobbes (Philosopher) | About: Art, Danger, Death and dying, Fear, Life, Society, Violence | Keywords: Bad art, brutish, continual, letters, nastier, nastiest, nasty, short letter, solitary, violent, violent death
«To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.»
Author: Alan Watts (Interpreter, Thinker, Writer) | Keywords: akin, brutish, childish, devils, furious, glorious, maintain, manly, perpetual, prevent, rage, resentment, rising, suppress, temper, The Practice, trifled, trifles, wrath
«The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, / Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: brutish, prophecy, The Prophecy
«Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: brutish, reproof
«Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? / He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? / He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know? / The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: brutish, The Ear
«A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: brutish
«For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: brutish, likewise
«Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Speech | Keywords: arts, both, brutish, dead, Divine, divined, divines, divine being, divining, silence, speech, therefore
«In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.»
Author: William S. Burroughs | Keywords: agencies, bigotry, brutish, cultist, government agencies, incarnate, incarnated, outsider, outsiders, psychiatrists, recapitulate, self-righteous, self government, The Story, unsightly, word for word
«O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,And men have lost their reason.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: beasts, brutish, fled, The Art of Reasoning
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