Apes Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

— Anonymous

“What appears to be lacking, even in great apes, is a motivation to find means to exchange what is on each other’s minds.”

— Thomas Suddendorf

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

— Konrad Lorenz

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

— Abraham Maslow

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

— Dale Jamieson

“I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard”

— Alfred Döblin

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“humans had to become the nicest of all apes before they could also evolve into the smartest.”

— Stefan Klein

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

— Simon Critchley

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

— Richard Dawkins