Celia Green Quotes

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Thinking in words, consciousness is behavior, experiment is measurement.

Celia Green
If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain... their permission to continue kowtowing.

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One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

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The most exciting thing possible is actually true.

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Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

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People having religions is an insult to the universe.

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When people talk about 'the sanctity of the individual' they mean 'the sanctity of the statistical norm'.

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The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

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It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

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The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

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The fact that something is far-fetched is no reason why it should not be true; it cannot be as far-fetched as the fact that something exists.

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When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

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It used to be regarded as a theological problem that God could be indifferent to the continuance of human suffering. What is really remarkable is that the human race can be.

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Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.

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In the universe there is room for an infinite series of beginnings.

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It is when the commercial factor enters into the situation that the possibility of genuine individual liberty arises.

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I have long had a theory that the popularity of Christianity has always depended on its appeal to the sadism of its adherents. The exceptional should be crucified, saith Society; and somehow everyone suspects (in spite of all arguments to the contrary) that if there is a God, he may be exceptional in some way. So the figure of Christ crucified becomes the figure of the dangerous exceptional alien—suitably defeated. 'Only a suffering God can help', said Bonhoeffer, licking his lips.

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What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events. These equations are, we would argue, the only realities we can be certain of in physics; any other ways we have of thinking about the situation are visual aids or mnemonics which make it easier for beings with our sort of macroscopic experience to use and remember the equations.

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You can never possess anything finite; that only leaves the infinite.

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The human race believes in not taking its problems seriously enough to solve them.

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In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is lucky to escape with his life.

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People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.

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In an unenlightened society some people are forced to play degrading social roles; in an enlightened society, everyone is.

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On the face of it there is something rather strange about human psychology. Human beings live in a state of mind called sanity, on a small planet in space. They are not quite sure whether the space around them is infinite or not, either way it is unthinkable. If they think about time, they find that it is inconceivable that it had a beginning. It is also inconceivable that it did not have a beginning. Thoughts of this kind are not disturbing to sanity, which is obviously a remarkable phenomenon that deserves more recognition.

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It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats.

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I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

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The human race wished me to accept the limitations with which it had thoughtfully provided me.

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The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine.

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Education by the State is a contradiction in terms. Intellectual development is only possible to those who have seen through society.

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Democracy: everyone should have an equal opportunity to obstruct everybody else.

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