John Gray

If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience. ↗

— John Gray

#experience #life-lessons #wisdom #experience

Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life. ↗

— John Gray

#dying-animals #humans #life #straw-dogs #suicide

It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do is give another twist to a normal madness. ↗

— John Gray

#science

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

— John Gray

#morality #nietzsche #schopenhauer #straw-dogs #will

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

— John Gray

#also #applying #forgetting #hearing #learning

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him. ↗

— John Gray

#critical #generally #help #him #how

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

— John Gray

#concerned #expressing #finding #her #herself

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

— John Gray

#empowered #feel #men #motivated #needed

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. ↗

— John Gray

#giving #just #men #receiving #women

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. ↗

— John Gray

#easy #equal #feelings #fulfilled #hurt