“In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in an updated bestiary that riffs on evolution, extinction, and what it means to be human among other species. We need this view, and you'll be right there with her on every page of Invisible Beasts.” NeedsWritingFirstsHumansMeanRealLanguageAnimalViewsCenturyEvolutionPagesTwentiesSpeciesInvisibleBeastImaginaryAccurateExtinctionWhat It Means To Be Human Author:John Felstiner
“And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.” MenWayCoursesMorningEvolutionHighestCelebrateEveningBeastHumankindNoon Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it through millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me.” LifeDoeForceMillionsCenturyLike YouEvolutionStrongerMonstersDrivingSurrenderBeastDemon Author:Martin Berkeley
“We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think about how we stack up, how we sit on top of each other. How we pray that we know what we're up to.” ThinkingKnowsLongStillsDoneTermTechnologyPerspectiveEvolutionPrayingInternetFlyingBeastLong AgoHierarchyAmazing ThingsHomo SapiensAnimalistic Author:Wangechi Mutu
“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.” MenWantEvolutionOvercomingPainfulBeastFloodEmbarrassmentApes Book:The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes Source: The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes
“At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.” MenAbleCertainOrderLevelsCitiesStageEvolutionHigherLaysDistanceShiningRaisedBeastTowersCity Of God Author:Alfred Noyes
“The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.” IfsMenMadeRealUseScienceEffortAcceptingPlansEffectsAcceptanceDevelopmentEvolutionTruth IsProofBeastHypothesisGod ImageReal Questions Author:William Jennings Bryan
“What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.” ThinkingRealSufferingWishPoorStupidEvolutionHigherTragedyTerrorTerrorismDumbBeastSensitivityDeath Wish Author:Mario Puzo