Quotes by Robert Ardrey - Page 1

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
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Angel
Apes
Psychology
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A human being is a problem in search of a solution.
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Humans
Problem
Solutions
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Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.
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Aggressiveness
Principal
Survival
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Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.
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Peace
War
Successful
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While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
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Impossible
Pursue
Unattainable
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A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.
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Bird
Doe
Wings
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What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.
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Behavior
Procession
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For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.
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Men
Reason
Worst
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Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.
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Charity
Classic
Cowardice
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Sex is a sideshow in the world of the animal, for the dominant color of that world is fear.
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Fear
Animal
Sex
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Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.
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Communication
Animal
Expression
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There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.
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Discovery
Hate
Moving
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Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
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Men
Antiques
Weapons
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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.
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Dream
War
Wish
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If you watch lizards and lions copulating, then you will see that in 200 million years the male has not had a single new idea.
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Ideas
Males
Years
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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.
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Dog
Fence
Masters
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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.
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Men
Science
Stars
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Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.
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Men
Echoes
Self
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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.
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Doe
Parades
Virtue
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Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are not so unique as we should like to believe.
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Animal
Believe
Unique
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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.
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Men
Hunters
Long
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Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?
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Men
Poverty
Today
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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?
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Angel
Apes
Killers
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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.
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Space
Animal
Competition
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Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.
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Bird
May
Population
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Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace.
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Home
Father
Lakes
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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.
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Dream
Men
Stars
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We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.
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Men
Boredom
Drug
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But 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? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. 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.
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Dream
Angel
Stars
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The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.
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Men
Reality
Years
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