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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


#call #ears #education #every #hand

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.


Mahatma Gandhi


#brute #despair #essentially #evil #human

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.


Mahatma Gandhi


#brute #brute force #east #force #heartily

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


#arise #brutes #empirical #far #like

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 #brute #i #magic #only

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


#directly #fidelity #frequent #friendship #goes

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


#anything #approaching #brute #brute force #citizens

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.


William Winwood Reade


#brute #curiosity #examining #food #habit

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


Jose Marti


#depository #duty #leave #living #man

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


#cannot #conceive #feet #hands #head






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