John N. Gray

Quotes

• “Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appe...”
• “If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particu...”
• “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...”
• “Anyone who truly wants to escape human solipsism should not seek out empty places. Instead of fleeing to desert, where t...”
• “Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be a...”
• “Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire,(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on s...”
• “If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating r...”
• “From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the l...”