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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.»
«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.»
«Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.»
«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.»
«For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.»
«Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.»
«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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