Ability Quote by Jean Baudrillard

Man is an ape with possibilities.

— Roy Chapman Andrews

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

— Konrad Lorenz

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth,…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“If a man has too much arm and leg hair, he is not a man, just merely an ape.”

— Young-Joon Choi

“If an animal is designed by nature to have claws it ought to keep them, and if men come with quirks that they are…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves. Do you want to be the ebb of that great tide, and revert back to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Konrad Lorenz

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape…

— Anonymous

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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