Konrad LorenzHumor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.375HopeHumor
Konrad LorenzMore than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. ✨ KONRAD LORENZ (1963). ON AGRESSION322Humanity
Konrad LorenzI have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.367Humor
Konrad LorenzEvery 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 le… ▶301Humanity
Konrad LorenzFew animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.379Thought
Konrad LorenzWe had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war. ✨ Konrad Lorenz (2002). On Aggre… ▶282Life
Konrad LorenzIn nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species. ✨ Konrad Lorenz (1979). On a… ▶272DeathLife
Konrad LorenzIt is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. ✨ On Aggression ch. 2 (1966)316Hope
Konrad LorenzThe bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be. ✨ Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr Wilson (2002). Man Meets Dog, p.135, Psychology Press297Death
Konrad LorenzMan appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings. ✨ Quoted in N.Y. Times Magazine, 11 Apr. 1965275HumanityTime
Konrad LorenzPhilosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, unt… ▶3110Humanity
Konrad LorenzMost of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man ✨ Konrad Lorenz (1966). On aggre… ▶298Death
Konrad Lorenz...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of o… ▶298Politics
Konrad LorenzEvil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value. ✨ On Aggression.222Hope
Konrad LorenzThe fidelity of a dog is a precious gift. ✨ Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr Wilson (2002). Man Meets Dog, p.135, Psychology Press222Thought
Konrad LorenzThe 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 be… ▶235PoliticsTimeTruth
Konrad LorenzAll scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities. ✨ Konrad Lorenz (1971). Studies in animal and human behaviour237DeathHumanity
Konrad LorenzBarking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot! ✨ On Aggression.259Humor
Konrad LorenzJust thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.237LoveThought
Konrad LorenzIf 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 a… ▶2410SadnessThought
Konrad LorenzHistorians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. ✨ Konrad Lorenz (2005). On Ag… ▶206Truth
Konrad LorenzMost people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens t… ▶173HumanityLife
Konrad LorenzMan has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.2410Humanity
Konrad LorenzTruth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. ✨ Konrad Lorenz (2002). On Aggression, p.279, Psychology Press<… ▶195Truth
Konrad LorenzThe truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.163Truth
Konrad LorenzScientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is. ✨ Konrad Lorenz (2002). On Aggression, p.279, Psychology Press… ▶163HumanityThoughtTruth
Konrad LorenzI believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive ✨ Konrad Lorenz (2005). On Aggression, p.109, Routledge2310Time
Konrad LorenzThe fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. ✨ Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr Wilson (2002).… ▶219Humanity
Konrad LorenzVisualize 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… ▶133LifeSadnessThought
Konrad LorenzThere is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog ✨ Konrad Lorenz (2003). King Solomon's Ring, p.111, Routledge147Hope
