John Gray
Born
in South Shields, County Durham, The United Kingdom
April 17, 1948
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Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
37 editions
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2002
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Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
50 editions
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2020
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Seven Types of Atheism
25 editions
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2018
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The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths
21 editions
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2013
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Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
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The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom
27 editions
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2015
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The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism
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False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism
33 editions
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1998
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Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern
26 editions
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2003
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The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death
33 editions
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2011
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“Most people today think they belong to a species that can be master of its destiny. This is faith, not science. We do not speak of a time when whales or gorillas will be masters of their destinies. Why then humans?”
― Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
― Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
“Humans cannot live without illusions. For the men and women of today, an irrational faith in progress may be the only antidote to nihilism. Without the hope that the future will be better than the past, they could not go on.”
― Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
― Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
“We think our actions express our decisions. But in nearly all of our life, willing decides nothing. We cannot wake up or fall asleep, remember or forget our dreams, summon or banish our thoughts, by deciding to do so. When we greet someone on the street we just act, and there is no actor standing behind what we do. Our acts are end points in long sequences of unconscious responses. They arise from a structure of habits and skills that is almost infinitely complicated. Most of our life in enacted without conscious awareness. Nor can it be made conscious. No degree of self-awareness can make us self-transparent.”
― Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
― Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
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