John Gray

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April 17, 1948 in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, The United Kingdom

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Philosophy, Politics

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Thomas Hobbes, Arthur Schopenhauer, Isaiah Berlin

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Leaving Alexandria: a Memoir of Faith and Doubt

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Books by John Gray

Average rating: 3.82 · 1,873 ratings · 184 reviews · 36 distinct works

	Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals 3.93 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia 3.83 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern 3.66 avg rating — 92 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions 3.62 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism 3.72 avg rating — 57 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Billy Bishop Goes to War by John Gray, Eric Peterson (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1982	My rating:
	Two Faces of Liberalism 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Liberalism by John Gray, University of Minnesota Press 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Isaiah Berlin 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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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?”
― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

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“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.”
― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

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“humankind's presence on Earth is nothing but a cancer”
― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

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