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Robert Ardrey Quotes

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone Picture Quote #1

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance Picture Quote #1

What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior Picture Quote #1

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity Picture Quote #1

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst Picture Quote #1

While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable Picture Quote #1

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A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies Picture Quote #1

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival Picture Quote #1

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels Picture Quote #1

A human being is a problem in search of a solution Picture Quote #1

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions Picture Quote #1

Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners Picture Quote #1

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The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses. No creature who began as a mathematical improbability, who was selected through millions of years of unprecedented environmental hardship and change for ruggedness, ruthlessness, cunning, and adaptability, and who in the short ten thousand years of what we may call civilization has achieved such wonders as we find about us, may be regarded as a creature without promise Picture Quote #1

Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us, curiosity to inspire us, hours free for meditation, words to place our thoughts in order, the question like a restless ghost has prowled the cellars of our consciousness Picture Quote #1

The dog barking at you from behind his master’s fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built Picture Quote #1

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings Picture Quote #1

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either Picture Quote #1

$Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are not so unique as we should like to believe. And if man in a time of need seeks deeper knowledge concerning himself, then he must explore those animal horizons from which we have made our quick little march Picture Quote #1$

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Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours Picture Quote #1

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Picture Quote #1

If man in a time of need seeks deeper knowledge concerning himself, then he must explore those animal horizons from which we have made our quick little march Picture Quote #1

What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space Picture Quote #1

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man Picture Quote #1

Sex is a sideshow in the world of the animal, for the dominant color of that world is fear Picture Quote #1

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There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone. (Robert Ardrey Quotes) Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance (Robert Ardrey Quotes) What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior (Robert Ardrey Quotes) Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity (Robert Ardrey Quotes) For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst (Robert Ardrey Quotes) While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable (Robert Ardrey Quotes) A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies (Robert Ardrey Quotes) Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival (Robert Ardrey Quotes) We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels (Robert Ardrey Quotes) A human being is a problem in search of a solution (Robert Ardrey Quotes) Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions (Robert Ardrey Quotes) Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners (Robert Ardrey Quotes) The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses. No creature who began as a mathematical improbability, who was selected through millions of years of unprecedented environmental hardship and change for ruggedness, ruthlessness, cunning, and adaptability, and who in the short ten thousand years of what we may call civilization has achieved such wonders as we find about us, may be regarded as a creature without promise (Robert Ardrey Quotes) Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us, curiosity to inspire us, hours free for meditation, words to place our thoughts in order, the question like a restless ghost has prowled the cellars of our consciousness (Robert Ardrey Quotes) The dog barking at you from behind his master’s fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built (Robert Ardrey Quotes) The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings (Robert Ardrey Quotes) There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either (Robert Ardrey Quotes) Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are not so unique as we should like to believe. And if man in a time of need seeks deeper knowledge concerning himself, then he must explore those animal horizons from which we have made our quick little march (Robert Ardrey Quotes) Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours (Robert Ardrey Quotes) We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? (Robert Ardrey Quotes) If man in a time of need seeks deeper knowledge concerning himself, then he must explore those animal horizons from which we have made our quick little march (Robert Ardrey Quotes) What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space (Robert Ardrey Quotes) Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man (Robert Ardrey Quotes) Sex is a sideshow in the world of the animal, for the dominant color of that world is fear (Robert Ardrey Quotes)