Simon Young > Quotes

“Man is not born free, but everywhere in biological chains. People of the world, unite! - you have nothing to lose but your biological chains.”
― Simon Young, Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto

“The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is already halfway down the road to tyranny.”
― Simon Young

“As humanism freed us from the chains of superstition, let transhumanism free us from our biological chains.”
― Simon Young, Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto

“I thus declare the return of Evolutionary Ethics.”
― Simon Young, Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto

“Cynicism is merely sloth, an excuse not to try.”
― Simon Young, Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto

“Man is not born free, but everywhere in biological chains. People of the world, unite - you have nothing to lose but your biological chains.”
― Simon Young

“For example”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“He who holds the power, is he who controls the meme.”
― Simon Young, Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto

“It is believed that humans who are in the otherworld should not eat any ‘fairy food’ they are presented with”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“Humans can meet fairies at any time”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“The Blue Pool near Wareham is said to be the home of bad fairies”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“Nowadays we think of ‘Puck’ as the personal name of an individual fairy”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“In 2011 Cottingley unveiled a £73,000 sculpture garden as a memorial to the cousins. It holds an annual Cottingley Fairy Fest”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“In England”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“In south Wales (Breconshire and Monmouthshire certainly) the fairies were commonly called ‘bendith y mamau’ or ‘bendith eu mamau”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“The Will to Evolve is not a drive for appropriation (Nietzsche's Will to Power), but for self development.”
― Simon Young, Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto

“Motif: B184.2.2.2 Magic cow (ox”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“The island fairies are strongly associated with prehistoric sites.41 MacCulloch notes that ‘the best informed among the peasantry’ believe that the fairies inhabited the islands before the present occupants and ‘that the cromlechs were erected by them for dwelling places’.”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“In 1838 a Co. Limerick court attempted to prosecute fairies for an illegal meeting”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“It has been suggested that since trimethylamine”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“Cornish knockers were diminutive”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“In the spirit of Stedman’s experience let’s return to what is certainly the most difficult place to hunt for fairies in Western Europe”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“Scottish witchcraft trials offer another invaluable resource to draw upon. There was little distinction made between fairy belief and witchcraft in Scotland; fairies and witch’s familiars”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“True”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“He who holds the power is he who controls the meme.".”
― Simon Young, Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto

“Girlish innocence and childish mischief; a daughter of the Empire and a Scottish knight; a Yorkshire war hero chasing fairies through the archives for almost twenty years; and the once ubiquitous pagan elves of Britain trapped within five flat picture frames… if ever the twentieth century boasted a British National Treasure with something for everyone”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“To this day in the Isle of Man the Fairies are never referred to as such”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“It should also be noted that”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

“A remarkable final chapter involving knockers occurred as the Cornish began emigrating to North America. While people brought traditions and beliefs from their homelands”
― Simon Young, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present