Quotes by Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Lorenz

A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did.

Ass

Helping

Men

All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural plan of the body and the system of behaviour of a species are parts of the same whole…. Wordsworth is right: there is only one being in possession of weapons which do not grow on his body and of whose working plan, therefore, the instincts of his species know nothing and in the usage of which he has no correspondingly adequate inhibition.

Adequate

Behaviour

Body

All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering… tends instead to favor humanity’s destruction.

Humanity

Men

Understanding

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

Definitions

Evil

Perceive

Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.

Animal

Hatred

Humanity

I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate each other. Like the late Erich von Holst, I believe that the tremendous and otherwise not quite explicable public interest in space flight arises from the subconscious realization that it helps to preserve peace. May it continue to do so!

Believe

Hate

Space

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

Believe

Men

Suffering

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

Links

Men

Missing

I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland togovern the people of this kingdom well and justly, than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world.

People

Scotland

Sight

If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.

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Learning

Science

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Helping

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Humanity

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Quotes by Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Lorenz

A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did.

All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering… tends instead to favor humanity’s destruction.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

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

I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland togovern the people of this kingdom well and justly, than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world.

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