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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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It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.
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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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