I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland togovern the people of this kingdom well and justly, than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world. Konrad Lorenz More Quotes by Konrad Lorenz More Quotes From Konrad Lorenz It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. Konrad Lorenz good-day morning science 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. Konrad Lorenz soul path mind In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, Konrad Lorenz well-known ideas firsts 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. Konrad Lorenz groups fighting strong 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. Konrad Lorenz business men blood Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts. Konrad Lorenz nature animal men 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. Konrad Lorenz suicide dog baby We do not take humor seriously enough. Konrad Lorenz humor enough 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. Konrad Lorenz obesity too-short dog Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value. Konrad Lorenz perceive definitions evil Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination. Konrad Lorenz hatred humanity animal 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. Konrad Lorenz mutation information opportunity 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 real attitude men 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. Konrad Lorenz learning health science 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. Konrad Lorenz men order believe The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong. Konrad Lorenz instinct organization way I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. Konrad Lorenz links missing men 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. Konrad Lorenz circles power order Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats. Konrad Lorenz cat expression animal 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. Konrad Lorenz running giving long
