“The perception that existence exists invalidates the normal personality, as does the imminence of death.”

—  Celia Green

Advice to Clever Children (1981)

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“Now if you do have a perception that any conceivable consideration may be utterly invalidated by some other consideration which you do not know, and if you are reminded of this perception constantly by the fact that things exist, certain modifications take place in the way you feel about things. These modifications have not taken place in the psychology of most people.”

Celia Green (1935) British philosopher

Advice to Clever Children (1981)

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