Brutes Quotes

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

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.

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.