I found these quotes for a story I’m working on. They’re pretty cool, so I thought I’d share.
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“We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers.” ~ Henry D. Thoreau |
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“… Plato, who described how in dreams, ‘when the gentler part of the soul slumbers and the control of Reason is withdrawn … the Wild Beast in us … becomes rampant.’ That Wild Beast, Plato goes on, ‘will cast off all shame and prudence at such moments and stop at nothing’ — including incest, murder, and ‘forbidden food.'” “The danger seems so obvious. Surely there is something in us deeply seated, self-propelled, and on occasion able to evade our conscious control — something that can do harm despite what we understand to be our best intentions: ‘The good that I would do I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.'” “Maybe what we’re afraid we’ll find if we look too closely is some resolute malevolence lurking in the heart of man, some unquenchable selfishness and blood lust; that deep down we’re all mindless crocodilian killing machines.” ~ Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors |
