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

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  Men, Missing, Links

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• Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

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  Knowledge, Men, Order

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• The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are.

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  Strong, Fighting, Groups

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.258, Psychology Press

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• It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

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  Morning, Good Day, Science

  On Aggression ch. 2 (1966)

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• The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

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  Soul, Mind, Path

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• In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected,
  later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

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  Ideas, Firsts, Well Known

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• One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

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  Stupid, Successful, Science

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

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  Believe, Men, Suffering

  Konrad Lorenz (2005). “On Aggression”, p.109, Routledge

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• The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by the obviously unpremeditated words of a great biologist; Alfred Kuhn finished a lecture to the Austrian Academy of Science with Goethe 's words, "It is the greatest joy of the man of thought to have explored the explorable and then calmly to revere the inexplorable." After the last word he hesitated, raised his hand in repudiation and cried, above the applause, "No, not calmly, gentlemen; not calmly!

  Konrad Lorenz

  Attitude, Real, Men

  "On Aggression". Book by Konrad Lorenz, Ch. XII : On the Virtue of Scientific Humility, 1963.

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• The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.

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  Home, Cat, Animal

  "Man Meets Dog". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1949.

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• The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing inhibitions. The deep, emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the crooking of the finger to release a shot tears the entrails of another man.

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  Distance, Men, Emotional

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• 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!

  Konrad Lorenz

  Hate, Believe, Space

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.273, Psychology Press

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• The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.

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  Business, Men, Blood

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• It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much too short anyhow.

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  Dog, Obesity, Too Short

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• One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within the ranked order, in other words, the reckless pursuit of power which combines with an insatiable greed of neurotic proportions that the results of acquired power confer.

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  Power, Order, Circles

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

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  Animal, Hatred, Humanity

  Konrad Lorenz (2003). “Man Meets Dog”, p.66, Routledge

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• Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

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  Nature, Men, Animal

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• I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game played by everyone against everyone else, from which wells up all that has never been before.

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  Games, Accomplishment, Creative

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• More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

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  Knowledge, Science, Culture

  KONRAD LORENZ (1963). “ON AGRESSION”

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• The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

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  Soul, Mind, Spirituality

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• All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

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  Fun, Men, Roles

  Konrad Lorenz (1971). “Studies in animal and human behaviour”

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• The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth.

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  Knowledge, Pride, Science

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

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• Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of its environment signifies no more and no less than that new information about this environment has got into that organic system. Adaptation is essentially a cognitive process.

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  Opportunity, Mutation, Information

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• The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.

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  Organization, Way, Instinct

  Konrad Lorenz (1966). “On aggressión”

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• Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success.

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  Running, Long, Giving

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