Apes Quotes - Page 8

• Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Mountain, Want

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• ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF CREATION VIA A LANGUAGE THAT EVOLVED IN ORDER TO TELL ONE ANOTHER WHERE THE RIPE FRUIT WAS.

  Terry Pratchett

  Order, Trying, Suggestions

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• Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Stars, Bananas, Humans

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• Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

  Ben Jonson

  Time, Eye, Mirrors

  1600 Every Man out of His Humour, Induction.

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• She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
  I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,
  And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Husband, Feet

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 32

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• The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Angel, Men, Sides

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech at Oxford Diocesan conference, November 25, 1864.

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• Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Men, Skills, Independence

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.216, Verso

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• Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

  Tom DeLay

  Children, Teaching, School

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• Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

  Gustave Flaubert

  Science, Thinking, Names

  Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.

  William Tenn

  Humility, Bananas, Manners

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• Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Pride, Men

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117

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• Conformity is the ape of harmony.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Conformity, Harmony

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.492, Harvard University Press

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• I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, War, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.14, David M Gross

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• Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

  Jared Diamond

  Discovery, Average, Gorillas

  Jared Diamond (2013). “The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee”, p.262, Random House

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• We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

  Robert Ardrey

  Angel, Psychology, Ethics

  Robert Ardrey (1977). “The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man”

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• The devil is God's ape!

  Martin Luther

  God, Devil

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• Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

  Edward Abbey

  Football, Player, Games

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• We're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of "divine legend," and we see ourselves as some sort of god. That we can walk around the earth deciding who will live and who will die and what will be destroyed and what will be saved. But the fact is we're just a bunch of primates out of control.

  Paul Watson

  Thinking, Conceited, Mind

  "Sharkwater". Documentary, September 11, 2006.

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• I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

  Paul Watson

  Men, Ideas, Form

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• The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

  Gary Larson

  Growing Up, Stupidity, Lord

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• English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

  Cyril Connolly

  Stupid, Intelligent, Law

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1983). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”, HarperCollins

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• It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

  Dian Fossey

  Individuality, Encounters, Firsts

  Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is not possible for man to understand God - God understands God. Man is God and therefore understands God. I am God. I am a man. I am good and not a beast. I am an animal with reason. I have flesh, I *am* flesh, I am not descended from flesh. Flesh is created by God. I am God. I am God. I am God.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Animal, Men, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

  Charles Stross

  Religious, Hallucinations, Depends

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.440, Penguin

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• In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

  Eban Goodstein

  Rain, Home, Butterfly

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