Konrad Quotes

The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.

The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs.

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

The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

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

Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.

The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.

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.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

There are things about which I don't even talk to myself.

The Good Lord hasn't done this well: He placed limits on everything, except on stupidity.

All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't.

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

The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.

In 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.

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.

Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

We all live under the same sky but we don't all have the same horizon.

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.

Life is only logical, and to think it's a gift is depressing.

Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.

'I don't need brains, ' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness, ' is the answer.

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

Accept that you're just a product, not a gift.

Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.

Best of all is to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.