If the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed... of great means of influence and yet who employs those faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion--I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we h...ave sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all things in life, Mrs. Lee held this kind of court-service in contempt, for she was something more than republican--a little ...communistic at heart, and her only serious complaint of the President and his wife was that they undertook to have a court and to ape monarchy. She had no notion of admitting social superiority in any one, President or Prince, and to be suddenly converted into a lady-in-waiting to a small German Grand-Duchess, was a terrible blow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Said an ape as he swung by his tail To his offspring both female and male,... "From your children, my dears, In a couple of years May evolve a professor at Yale."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the libert...y to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the ...religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried.... I copied them--but I regret That I should ape the ways of pride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hour...s and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs--something, anything.... Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »