Celia Green
British philosopher and author.
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is lucky to escape with his life.
In an unenlightened society some people are forced to play degrading social roles; in an enlightened society, everyone is.
The human race believes in not taking its problems seriously enough to solve them.
'Social justice' - the expression of universal hatred.
Society is everybody's way of punishing one another because they daren't take it out on the universe.
One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.
Astonishment is the only realistic emotion.
Human nature: vindictiveness lightly coated with dishonesty.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.
Society is a self-regulating mechanism for preventing the fulfilment of its members.
When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
It is when the commercial factor enters into the situation that the possibility of genuine individual liberty arises.
People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
In the universe there is room for an infinite series of beginnings.
Children need admiration rather than affection.
Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.
Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
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.