Bestial Quotes
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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More Bestial Quotes
We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.
George Steiner— Ch. I (p. 6)
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."
carl jung— The Practice of Psychotherapy, p. 364 (1953)
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act II, scene 3, line 262.
Sir, there be many rumours on this head: For there be those who hate him in their hearts, Call him baseborn, and since his ways are sweet, And theirs are bestial, hold him less than man: And there be those who deem him more than man, And dream he dropt from heaven
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in Idylls of the King (1856–1885), The Coming of Arthur
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."
— Carl Jung The Practice of Psychotherapy, (1953), p. 364
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother Like all women, being very fond of indigestible things Presence of a woman, that sovereign inspiration Spirit of order and arithmetic in the business house Subtleties of expression to describe the most improper things Thin veneer of modesty of every woman Thrill of furious and bestial anger which urges on a mob to massacre .
— Guy de Maupassant, in Quotes And Images From Maupassant.
