Celia Green: Humanity

Celia Green is British philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on humanity.
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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.”

Celia Green

The Human Evasion (1969)

Way , Thinking , Time

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

Celia Green

The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)

Problem

“The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.”

Celia Green

The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)

“Human nature: vindictiveness lightly coated with dishonesty.”

Celia Green

The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)

Nature

“The human race knows enough about thinking to prevent it.”

Celia Green

The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)

Thinking

“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

The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)

Understanding

“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.”

Celia Green

Advice to Clever Children (1981)

People , Secret , World , Understanding