“ 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 N Gray
“ Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves. John N Gray
“ 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 him to marry her and be gre… John N Gray
“ As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs. John N Gray
“ In comparison with the Genesis myth, the modern myth in which humanity is marching to a better future is mere superstition. As the Genesis story teaches, knowledge cannot save us from ourselves. If we… John N Gray
“ The new atheists are unwitting disciples of Comte’s Positivist philosophy. It seems self-evident to them that religion is a primitive sort of science. But this is itself a primitive view, and a remark… John N Gray
