Quotes by John Gray

“The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.”

“Over the past two hundred years philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Christianity's cardinal error -the belief that humans are radically different from all other animals.”

“The Buddha promised release from something we all understand: suffering. By contrast, no one can say what was the original sin, and no one understands how the suffering of Christ can redeem it.”

“If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.”

“The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.”

“I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away.”

“What you feel, you can heal.”

“Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.”

“The Buddhist ideal of awakening implies that we can sever our links with our evolutionary past. We can raise ourselves from the sleep in which other animals pass their lives. Our illusions dissolve...”

“Those who ignore the destructive potential of new technologies can do so only because they ignore history . Pogroms are as old as Christendom , but without railways, the telegraph and poison gas th...”

“Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.”

“In the struggle for life, a taste for truth is a luxury--or else a disability.”

“A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.”

“All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.”

“Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.”

“Modern humanism is the faith that through science humankind can know the truth- and to be free. But if Darwin's theory of natural selection is true this is impossible. The human mind serves evoluti...”

“Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.”

“When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.”