Celia Green

"The starting point is that one is interested in the universe, one observes that one is finite and that this is intolerable. One has a limited time and apparently limited capacity with which to find an…"

"Now if you see that it is inconceivable that anything should exist, it is evident that at least one inconceivable fact is there. That is to say, that which exists is not limited to the conceivable. Si…"

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

"The perception that existence exists invalidates the normal personality,as does the imminence of death."

"What is scandalous is not that stupid people should sometimes inherit private incomes; but that clever people should sometimes not."

"One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none."

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

"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."