Imanishi Quotes & Sayings

In 1952 the father of Japanese primatology, Kinji Imanishi, first — Frans De Waal

The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man. — Nikki Grimes

Not unlike Lorenz's emphasis on knowing the whole animal, Imanishi urged us to empathize with the species under study. We need to get under its skin, he said, or as we would nowadays put it, try to enter its Umwelt. — Frans De Waal

The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There's a certain language, a dying language, and I can't remember who speaks it or where in the world they are, but in that language the future is referred to as being behind us. It must be behind us, since we can see the past. We walk backwards, blind, into the future, only knowing where we've already been. — Andra Brynn

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian. — Mr. T

Dreams are our spiritual illustrated discovery journals. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

From Secret Man

The man of autumn,
Behind its melancholy mask,
Will laugh in the brown grass,
Will shout from the tower's rim. — Wallace Stevens