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The perception that existence exists invalidates the normal personality, as does the imminence of death.
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Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.
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'Social justice' - the expression of universal hatred.
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The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
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The object of modern science is to make all aspects of reality equally boring, so that no one will be tempted to think about them.
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There are some things that are sure to go wrong as soon as they stop going right.
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If you say to a theoretical physicist that something is inconceivable, he will reply: "It only appears inconceivable because you are naively trying to conceive it. Stop thinking and all will be well."
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The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus...
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Thinking in words, consciousness is behavior, experiment is measurement.
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Human nature: vindictiveness lightly coated with dishonesty.
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The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
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Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learned to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense. This is why they talk so much about the value of human understanding and sympathy - it has a certain rarity value in their world.
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The object of the educational system is to make the child feel suitably guilty for the harm that has been done to him.
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Society is a self-regulating mechanism for preventing the fulfilment of its members.
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I spent a couple of years between eleven and thirteen analysing the social evaluations that were taken for granted, also acquiring a thorough scepticism about processes regarded as causal, and the consistency of the physical world, as well as the reliability of my own mental processes. By the time I was thirteen I was running out of things to think about, so starting on a run of exam-taking seemed all the more appropriate, as I was finding it difficult to make use of spare time.
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It is easier to make people appear equally stupid than to make them equally clever, so teaching methods are adopted which make it practically impossible for anyone to learn anything.
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The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.
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Society is everybody's way of punishing one another because they daren't take it out on the universe.
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People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
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The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.
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It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.
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What is scandalous is not that stupid people should sometimes inherit private incomes; but that clever people should sometimes not.
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It is actually a principle of modern paternalism that if you want something you should be stopped from having it[…] Most foods are harmful to some people if taken in excess, and I expect the only reason that carrots are still available without a prescription is that no one has got very excited about them, or claimed that they might cure cancer.
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The human race knows enough about thinking to prevent it.
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That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.
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Celia Green
Born:
November 26, 1935
(age 88)
Bio:
Celia Elizabeth Green is a British writer on philosophical scepticism, twentieth-century thought, and psychology.
Known for:
Advice to Clever Children (1981)
Letters from Exile (2004)
Lucid Dreams (1968)
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