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
risk way research
Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.
superstitions belief our-time
One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.
attitude work may
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 do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.
dishonesty clarity
Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.
children people century
People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
commitment people psychology
It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats
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.
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.
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 ...