writer on philosophical skepticism
, twentieth-century thought, and psychology
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Green's parents were both primary school teachers, who together authored a series of geography textbooks which became known as The Green Geographies.
She was educated first at the Ursuline Convent in Ilford, and later at the Woodford High School for Girls, a state school. In a book, Letters from Exile, she compared these two schools and made conclusions that preferred parentally financed to state education.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.
The fact that something is far-fetched is no reason why it should not be true; it cannot be as far-fetched as the fact that something exists.
Astonishment is the only realistic emotion.
People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.