Konrad Lorenz Quotes

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• The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Friendship, Dog, Responsibility

  Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr Wilson (2002). “Man Meets Dog”, p.135, Psychology Press

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• The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.

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  Dog, Loss, Ties

  Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr Wilson (2002). “Man Meets Dog”, p.135, Psychology Press

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• Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.

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  People, Philosopher, Scientist

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• There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

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  Friendship, Dog, Broken

  Konrad Lorenz (2003). “King Solomon's Ring”, p.111, Routledge

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• Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.

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  Animal, Men, People

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• The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...

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  Play, Decision, Humanity

  "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.

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• The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

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  Dog, Pet, Puppy

  Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr Wilson (2002). “Man Meets Dog”, p.135, Psychology Press

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• Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.

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  Dog, I Love Him, Thinking

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• The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

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  Beautiful, Animal, Woven

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• 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.

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  Men, Humanity, Understanding

  "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.

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• All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.

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  Men, Errors, People

  Konrad Lorenz (2005). “On Aggression”, p.99, Routledge

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• ...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.

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  Nature, Eye, Tears

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• 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.

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  Behaviour, Body, Adequate

  Konrad Lorenz (1961). “King Solomon's ring: new light on animal ways”, Thomas Y. Crowell

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• Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

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  Science, Men, Missing

  Quoted in N.Y. Times Magazine, 11 Apr. 1965

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• Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

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  Humor, Two, Culture

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• The appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with [man], that she has the uncompromising independence of a tiger or a leopard while she is hunting in his stables and barns: that she still remains mysterious and remote when she is rubbing herself gently against the legs of her mistress or purring contentedly in front of the fire.

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  Lying, Cat, Hunting

  Konrad Lorenz (2003). “Man Meets Dog”, p.9, Routledge

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

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  Evil, Definitions, Perceive

  "On Aggression".

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• 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.

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  Men, Helping, Ass

  KONRAD LORENZ (1963). “ON AGRESSION”

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• Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.

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  Suicide, Dog, Baby

  Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt

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• Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot!

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  Dog, Men, Laughing

  "On Aggression".

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• Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

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  Art, Truth, Science

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.279, Psychology Press

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• I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social order today he finds no adequate outlet.

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  Believe, Men, Order

  KONRAD LORENZ (1963). “ON AGRESSION”

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• Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

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  Truth, Science, Religion

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.279, Psychology Press

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• 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, Health, Science

  Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt

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• We do not take humor seriously enough.

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  Humor, Enough

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