Apes Quotes - Page 11

• The devil is God's ape!

  Martin Luther

  God, Devil

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• One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

  Charles Stross

  Religious, Hallucinations, Depends

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.440, Penguin

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• When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

  Ken Ham

  Book, Reading, School

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• In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

  Eban Goodstein

  Rain, Home, Butterfly

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• I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, War, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.14, David M Gross

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• Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

  Jared Diamond

  Discovery, Average, Gorillas

  Jared Diamond (2013). “The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee”, p.262, Random House

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• We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

  Robert Ardrey

  Angel, Psychology, Ethics

  Robert Ardrey (1977). “The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man”

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• In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.

  Jane Goodall

  Kindness, Thinking, Rights

  "The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity". Book by Paola Cavalieri, Peter Singer, 1996.

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• The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

  John Philip Sousa

  Men, Tails, Evolution

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• But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.

  Scott Weiland

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

  Steven Erikson

  Prejudice, Source

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• Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Men, Skills, Independence

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.216, Verso

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• She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
  I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,
  And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Husband, Feet

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 32

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• Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Brain, Anything Goes, Movement

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but there's no difference. In the scenes that we're playing, if we were to block out the scenes as actors in costumes, it would be no different.

  Andy Serkis

  Block, Differences, Different

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Stupid, Thinking, Two

  YouTube Chanel "sdfhsfh"/ "Richard Feynman explains the feeling of confusion", www.youtube.com. November 3, 2007.

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• I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.

  Thomas Huxley

  Bishops, Ancestor

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• He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

  John Stuart Mill

  Needs, World, Imitation

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• The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Simplicity, Meditation

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

  Dale Jamieson

  Ideas, Psychology, Groups

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.

  Dale Jamieson

  Dream, Enlightenment, Demand

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's that we're experiencing emotion through photo-real apes, and that's really holding a mirror up to who we are. It's interesting, because as we're showing the movie now, we're getting a lot of response about things [people] think are very topical. And the intention is never to approach it from the outside-in, which is to say, "Ah, this is going on, let's draw that in."

  Matt Reeves

  Real, Thinking, Mirrors

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks.

  Seth Rogen

  Done, Comedy, Freak

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• A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!

  Berkeley Breathed

  Mind, Evolution, Nonsense

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• Does anyone remember how we used to get cash before ATM's? Did we have to go inside the bank? Then what? We lived like apes!

  Dana Gould

  Doe, Atm, Cash

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