Konrad Lorenz Quote

I now come to the third great obstacle to human self-knowledge, to the belief — deeply rooted in our western culture — that what can be explained in terms of natural science has no values. This belief springs from an exaggeration of Kant's values-philosophy, the consequence of the idealistic dichotomy of the world into the external world of things and the internal laws of human reason.


Ch. XII : On the Virtue of Scientific Humility - On Aggression (1963)


I now come to the third great obstacle to human self-knowledge, to the belief — deeply rooted in our western culture — that what can be explained ...

I now come to the third great obstacle to human self-knowledge, to the belief — deeply rooted in our western culture — that what can be explained ...

I now come to the third great obstacle to human self-knowledge, to the belief — deeply rooted in our western culture — that what can be explained ...

I now come to the third great obstacle to human self-knowledge, to the belief — deeply rooted in our western culture — that what can be explained ...