Celia Green - Human Quotes

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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.

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

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

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The human race knows enough about thinking to prevent it.

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The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

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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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Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.

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Human nature: vindictiveness lightly coated with dishonesty.

Celia Green
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

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