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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 The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)

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The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

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In an unenlightened society some people are forced to play degrading social roles; in an enlightened society, everyone is.

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In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is lucky to escape with his life.

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The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

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Human nature: vindictiveness lightly coated with dishonesty.

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