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Konrad Lorenz

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There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog


— Konrad Lorenz


#faith

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.


— Konrad Lorenz


#beauty #myth #truth #beauty

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.


— Konrad Lorenz


#between #civilized #civilized man #found #higher

We do not take humor seriously enough.


— Konrad Lorenz


#humor #seriously #take

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.


— Konrad Lorenz


#endangers #evil #good #perceive #value

Historians 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


#determined #did #evolution #face #fact

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.


— Konrad Lorenz


#believe #civilized #civilized man #day #discharge

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


#before #breakfast #day #discard #every

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.


— Konrad Lorenz


#condemned #correspond #harmless #inclinations #least

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.


— Konrad Lorenz


#dog #earth #ever #lasting #ties






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Did you know about Konrad Lorenz?

Before the outbreak of World War II he joined the National Socialist Party many of whose views he shared. In nature these mechanisms tend towards a 'stable state' among the living beings of an ecology:
"A closer examination shows that these beings. Famed psycho-anatomist Ralph Greenson and Sir Peter Scott were good friends.

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist ethologist and ornithologist. Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals especially in greylag geese and jackdaws. Working with geese he rediscovered the principle of imprinting (originally described by Douglas Spalding in the 19th century) in the behavior of nidifugous birds.

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