01In print by 1911 ADBlessings on the hand of woman! Angels guard her strength and grace; In the cottage, palace, hovel,— O! no matter where the place. Would that never storms assailed it, Rainbows ever gently curled; For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. Blessings on the hand of woman! Fathers, sons and daughters cry; And the sacred song is mingled With the worship in the sky,— Mingles where no tempest darkens, Rainbows evermore are curled; For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.John Gray / quote ↗
02UndatedIf we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.John Gray / quote ↗
03UndatedThe fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.John Gray / quote ↗
04UndatedOver 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.John Gray / quote ↗
05UndatedThe 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.John Gray / quote ↗
06UndatedThe process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.John Gray / quote ↗
07UndatedI 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.John Gray / quote ↗
10UndatedThe 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 dissolved, we need no longer suffer. This is only another doctrine of salvation, subtler than that of the Christians, but no different from Christianity in its goal of leaving our animal inheritance behind. But the idea that we can rid ourselves of animal illusion is the greatest illusion of all. meditation may give us a fresher view of things but cannot uncover them as they are in themselves.John Gray / quote ↗
11UndatedThose 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 there could have been no Holocaust. (..) Scientific fundamentalism claim that science is the disinterested pursuit of the truth. But to represent science in this way is to disregard the human needs science serves. Among us science serves two needs: for hope and censorship. Today only science supports the myth of progress. If people cling to the hope of progress, it is not so much from genuine belief as from fear of what may come if they give it up.John Gray / quote ↗
12UndatedIn the struggle for life, a taste for truth is a luxury--or else a disability.John Gray / quote ↗
13UndatedModern 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 evolutionary success, not truth. To think otherwise is to resurrect the pre-Darwinian error that humans are different from all other animals. (...) There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution.(...) Among humans, the best deceivers are those who deceive themselves: 'we deceive ourselves in order to deceive others better'. A lover who promises eternal fidelity s more likely to be believed if he believes his promise himself; he is no more likely to keep his promise.(...) In a competition for mates, a well-developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage.John Gray / quote ↗
14UndatedLife 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.John Gray / quote ↗
15UndatedWhen men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.John Gray / quote ↗
16UndatedA 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 / quote ↗
17UndatedAll 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 / quote ↗
18UndatedMen are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.John Gray / quote ↗
