"We are born of risen apes, not fallen…" — Robert Ardrey
"We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels."
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25 Quotes by Robert Ardrey
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Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.
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The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial…
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There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know,…
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There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is…
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Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender.…
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A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.
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Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
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Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have…
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While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
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Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to…
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The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master…
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Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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