Richard Gregory famous quotes

03-28-2025

We not only believe what we see, to some extent we see what we believe ...The implications of our beliefs are frightening.
-- Richard Gregory

#Believe #Belief #Frightening
A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.
-- Richard Gregory

#Fashion #Imagination #Finest
One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.
-- Richard Gregory

#Understanding #Brain #Porridge
The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.
-- Richard Gregory

#Pain #Eye #Smell

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.
It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.
It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.
There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.
It's a frightening world to be alone in.
You know, dulceata, there are times when I truly believe you are the most frightening person I know. Thank you?
The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.

Richard Gregory famous quotes

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