Apes Quotes - Page 12

• I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.

  Thomas Huxley

  Bishops, Ancestor

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• He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

  John Stuart Mill

  Needs, World, Imitation

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• The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Simplicity, Meditation

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Stupid, Thinking, Two

  YouTube Chanel "sdfhsfh"/ "Richard Feynman explains the feeling of confusion", www.youtube.com. November 3, 2007.

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• It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

  Simon Critchley

  Hands, Killers, Longing

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• The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds... the one thing we have more of than other apes... and let's secure their future.

  Richard Leakey

  Mind, Problem, Strategy

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• Do I think men are complicated? People are complicated! I don't know that there is one particular aspect of men in general that I don't understand - other than why do they have nipples? I thought we decided that men are just big, hairy apes.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Men, Thinking, People

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• Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.

  Claudine Andre

  Unique, Males, Bonobos

  "Bonobos: What we can learn from our primate cousin". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. December 6, 2015.

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• I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

  Abraham Maslow

  Men, Missing, Links

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

  Gregory Keyes

  Saws, Obsessed, Planets

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• My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

  Gregory Keyes

  Degrees, Anthropology

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• People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, People, Stills

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• I actually liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I remember just watching it and being pleasantly surprised with that movie. I didn't think it would be as good as it was, so I love that movie.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Thinking, Would Be, Remember

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• The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we are still apes. A part of our brain is still a paleo-brain and many of the reactions come from our fight or flight instinct. As long as this part of the brain can take over control the rational part of the brain (we will face these problems).

  Jean-Marie Lehn

  Fighting, Long, Brain

  Source: www.lindau-nobel.org

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• I did some writing for that movie. The remake of Planet of the Apes. I didn't write the script. But I wrote some lines that they ended up... not using. ... I wrote one line. I thought it would've been perfect. I don't know if anyone saw the movie. It's the scene where the ape general comes in. And they're trying to decide if they should attack right there, or wait until a little later. And I wrote: "Man these bananas are good!" But they didn't use it. I did all of that research.

  Brian Regan

  Funny, Writing, Men

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• It's that we're experiencing emotion through photo-real apes, and that's really holding a mirror up to who we are. It's interesting, because as we're showing the movie now, we're getting a lot of response about things [people] think are very topical. And the intention is never to approach it from the outside-in, which is to say, "Ah, this is going on, let's draw that in."

  Matt Reeves

  Real, Thinking, Mirrors

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.

  Dale Jamieson

  Dream, Enlightenment, Demand

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

  Dale Jamieson

  Ideas, Psychology, Groups

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but there's no difference. In the scenes that we're playing, if we were to block out the scenes as actors in costumes, it would be no different.

  Andy Serkis

  Block, Differences, Different

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Creating, Psychology

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.

  Pierre Boulle

  Book, Writing, Men

  Pierre Boulle (1963). “Planet of the Apes”

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• Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.

  James Lee

  Squirrels, Turtles, Sharks

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• There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

  William Winwood Reade

  Father, Believe, Angel

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.395

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• Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us?

  Russell Brand

  Dna, Cells, Dust

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order.

  Frans de Waal

  Order, Killers, Epitome

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