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John Nicholas Gray  Quotes
Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life.

—John Nicholas Gray

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This catch-22 happens a lot to men. A man can sense that a woman wants to know if he loves her. He doesn’t want to share those feelings because, if he does, she will expect...

—John Nicholas Gray

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Anyone who truly wants to escape human solipsism should not seek out empty places. Instead of fleeing to desert, where they will be thrown back into their own thoughts, they will d better to seek...

—John Nicholas Gray

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Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up.The Earth will forget...

—John Nicholas Gray

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Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.

—John Nicholas Gray

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If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particular humans. If we speak of the history of the species at all,...

—John Nicholas Gray

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From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

—John Nicholas Gray

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Life was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it.

—John Nicholas Gray

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Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies....

—John Nicholas Gray

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If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience.

—John Nicholas Gray

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