#beast

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#historic-future #natural #origins #nature

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. ↗

— Aristotle

#delighted #either #god #solitude #whosoever

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. ↗

— Aristotle

#because #either #god #himself #live

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#animal #animal life #avoiding #beasts #bodily

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#delighted #either #god #solitude #whosoever

We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they? ↗

— Sid Vicious

#everyone #friendly #nice #quite #really

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#brother #evil #fear #i #man

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. ↗

— Alan Bleasdale

#beastly #deformed #doth #makes #man

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.' ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#bbc #beasts #best #blue #comparison

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine. ↗

— Isabella Bird

#bit #claimed #dried #everybody #gold