"Although elephants are far more distantly related to……" — Frans de Waal
"Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities."
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86 Quotes by Frans de Waal
Frans de Waal has 86 quotes on this site.
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If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.
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Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions.…
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As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler…
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The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give…
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You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.
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The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with…
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If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they…
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Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between…
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I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or…
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Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.
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We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in…
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If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is…
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More Ape Quotes
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one of 164 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
— Honore de Balzac
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female…
— Brandon Boyd
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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…
— William Shakespeare
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish…
— Carl Linnaeus
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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the…
— David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he…
— William Ralph Inge
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A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and…
— Adolf Hitler
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