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| aad150c | Alone among the animals, humans seek meaning in their lives by killing and dying for the sake of nonsensical dreams. | John Nicholas Gray | ||
| da5b76b | 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 Nicholas Gray | ||
| b9acfa6 | The highly civilized apes swung gracefully from bough to bough; the Neanderthaler was uncouth and bound to the earth. The apes, saturated and playful, lived in sophisticated playfulness, or caught fleas in philosophic contemplation; the Neanderthaler trampled gloomily through the world, banging around with clubs. The apes looked down on him amusedly from their tree tops and threw nuts at him. Sometimes horror seized them: they ate fruits an.. | John Nicholas Gray |