#brute

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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

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The man that blushes is not quite a brute. ↗

— Edward Young

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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

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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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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

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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

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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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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

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