Celia Green
Celia Green
Celia Elizabeth Greenis a British writer on philosophical scepticism, twentieth-century thought, and psychology...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 November 1935
race psychology humans
The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
people democracy aristocracy
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
curious individual results
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.
people facts odd
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.
people might accepting
People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
history important lasts
The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.
beautiful song dog
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.
people insult universe
People having religions is an insult to the universe.
simple people secret
Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.
race gains conformity
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.
race facts method
The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.
mean people prejudice
When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
memorable astonishment way
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
science supposing-that theoretical-physics
The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus ...