Words words words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.
Save for thee and thy lessons man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
There is no religion without love and people may talk as much as they like about their religion but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham.
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
If it's true that men are such beasts this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
Either men will learn to live like brothers or they will die like beasts.
Without feelings of respect what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants crowded together around the Hill blackening the ground that you begin to see the whole beast and now you observe it thinking planning calculating. It is an intelligence a kind of live computer with crawling bits for its wits.