• The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

    Georg C. Lichtenberg: The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 115, 1799.