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“There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.”

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Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.”

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Book:Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

“Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.”

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Book:A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

Source: A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

“I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.”

Planets Masters Wall Angel Apes Grapes

Author:Adam Ant

“There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

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

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Author:Desmond Morris

“We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.”

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Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.”

Source: AFRICAN GENISIS

“I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”

Fall Angel Rising Apes Discworld Juvenile

Book:A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

Source: A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”

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Book:Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)

Source: Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)

“We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?”

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Book:AFRICAN GENISIS

Source: AFRICAN GENISIS

“The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.”

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Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.”

Men Littles Play Heaven Pride Proud Authority Angel Essence Angry Tricks Ignorant Fantastic Apes Proud Man Measure For Measure

Author:William Shakespeare

“We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.”

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Book:The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man

Source: The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man

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