Quotes by : John N. Gray

Anyone who truly wants to escape human solipsism should not seek out empty places. Instead of fleeing....

Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths....

If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at....

Life was indeed cruel but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it.

Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.

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....

Today we have made a fetish of choice but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans....

Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying....

If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the....

From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism.....

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire,(...) What is new is not that prosperity....