Apes Quote by Thomas Huxley Download Open image “I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.” — Thomas Huxley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apes Atheism Be a man Faces Facing the truth Men Offspring Religion Truth Two
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men. — Harry Hooton Copy Share Image
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly… — Thomas Huxley 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
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 Copy Share Image
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse — Frans De Waal Copy Share Image
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and… — Francine Prose 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 monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair"… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than… — Thomas Huxley 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 and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
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
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
Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her like she's a piece of meat, like she's an animal. That just means you've lost respect for a fellow human being. You're looking at her like an ape looks at a female ape, like a dog looks at… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
