A Quote by Aristotle
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.
Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Either a beast or a god.
When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will let you know something gradually over the years. And in that word from God you will find the inner place from which to live your life. Solitude is where spiritual ministry begins. That's where Jesus listened to God. That's where we listen to God.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Beyond the Wild Wood comes the wild world,"said the Rat."And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going' nor you either, if you've got any sense at all.
We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.
The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes out. The urban, the cultivated, is hidden or negatived.
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