Apes Quote by Simon Critchley

“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

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

We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Apes have a wide variety of sexual arrangements. That means, by the way, that there is no such thing as an “ape legacy” that…

— Steven Pinker

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

Humans are just monkeys with feelings.

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— Konrad Lorenz

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

— Frans de Waal

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

— Geraldine Brooks

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

Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.

— Robert Sapolsky