Apes Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image “Man is more ape than many of the apes.” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apes Men
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. — H L Mencken Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is… — Vaslav Nijinsky Copy Share Image
The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse — Frans De Waal Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful. You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning. — J. Lee Thompson Copy Share Image
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her like she's a piece of meat, like she's an animal. That just means you've lost respect for a fellow human being. You're looking at her like an ape looks at a female ape, like a dog looks at… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
