Apes Quote by Peter Kreeft Download Open image “Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.” — Peter Kreeft ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apes Like Apes Ontological Ontological Oxymorons Oxymoron Say Ontological Sleep
“We are all just complicated arrangements of atoms and subatomic particles. We don't live...but our atoms do move about in such a way as… — Rolf de Heer Copy Share Image
Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Yes, we humans are more than merely biological creatures. We appreciate beauty, we struggle with ethical conflicts, and we strive to make sense of… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
We're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of "divine legend," and we see ourselves as some sort of… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of god, thinking… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human". — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins 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
“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our… — Peter Kreeft 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… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
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
“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the… — Orson Scott Card 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
I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image