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Desmond Morris Quotes: We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.
         

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.


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This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.



Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.

Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.



Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.



I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.



We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.



Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.



The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.

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