Quotes from Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

“What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves”
― Jeremy Griffith, quote from Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

“The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it”
― Jeremy Griffith, quote from Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

“Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation.”
― Jeremy Griffith, quote from Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

“We can transition from being victims of the human condition to becoming secure, sound, effective managers of our world”
― Jeremy Griffith, quote from Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

“A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour”
― Jeremy Griffith, quote from Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

“When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum…for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.”
― Jeremy Griffith, quote from Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

“The agony of being unable to answer the question of why are we the way we are, divisively instead of cooperatively behaved, has been the particular burden of life. It has been our species' particular affliction or condition — our human condition.”
― Jeremy Griffith, quote from Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

“Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself”
― Jeremy Griffith, quote from Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

“Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense”
― Jeremy Griffith, quote from Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

“Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race”
― Jeremy Griffith, quote from Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

“While it is one thing to wish for the truth, it is quite another to cope with it”
― Jeremy Griffith, quote from Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

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