All Konrad Lorenz Quotes
- All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities. Activities
- Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats. Animal
- In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the… Endanger
- The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. Animal
- The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at… Able
- Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is. Art
- More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. All
- If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi,… All
- The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be. Bond
- The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is… Advantageous
- I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive Aggressive
- Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value Definition
- Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man Adaptive
- The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift. Dog
- ...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist… Beauty
- Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame. Dog
- Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat,… Advice
- We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war. All
- We do not take humor seriously enough. Humor
- It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much too short anyhow. All
- I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated… Act
- I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game played by everyone… Accomplishment
- Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of… Adaptation
- Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards… Advantageous
- The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human… Adversaries