Celia Green quotes

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. (Celia Green)
I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
Celia Green
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
Celia Green
When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
Celia Green
One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.
Celia Green
Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.
Celia Green
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
Celia Green
The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
Celia Green
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.
Celia Green
People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
Celia Green
Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail. (Celia Green)
The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.
Celia Green
People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
Celia Green
The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.
Celia Green
People having religions is an insult to the universe.
Celia Green
What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events. These equations are, we would argue, the only realities we can be certain of in physics; any other ways we have of thinking about the situation are visual aids or mnemonics which make it easier for beings with our sort of macroscopic experience to use and remember the equations.
Celia Green
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
Celia Green
It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.
Celia Green
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.
Celia Green
That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.
Celia Green
What is scandalous is not that stupid people should sometimes inherit private incomes; but that clever people should sometimes not. (Celia Green)
It is when the commercial factor enters into the situation that the possibility of genuine individual liberty arises.
Celia Green
In the universe there is room for an infinite series of beginnings.
Celia Green
In an unenlightened society some people are forced to play degrading social roles; in an enlightened society, everyone is.
Celia Green
The human race knows enough about thinking to prevent it.
Celia Green