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Quotes from On Aggression — Konrad Lorenz

1903–1989 Austria

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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

On Aggression (1963)

We are the highest achievement reached so far by the great constructors of evolution. We are their "latest" but certainly not their last word.

On Aggression (1963)

Our freest will underlies strict moral laws, and one of the reasons for our longing for freedom is to prevent our obeying other laws than these.

On Aggression (1963)

All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.

On Aggression (1963)

I now come to the third great obstacle to human self-knowledge, to the belief — deeply rooted in our western culture — that what can be explained in terms of natural science has no values. This belief springs from an exaggeration of Kant's values-philosophy, the consequence of the idealistic dichotomy of the world into the external world of things and the internal laws of human reason.

On Aggression (1963)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Konrad Lorenz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.