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“The human mind serves evolutionary success, not truth. To think otherwise is to resurrect the pre-Darwinian error that humans are different from all other animals.”
― John N. Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

“While this has never been the mainstream view in Germany, there are still political groups there today who refuse to acknowledge the Holocaust on the grounds that what Germans in eastern Europe suffered was 'exactly the same'. This is an extremely dangerous point of view. While it is true that the Polish labour camps contained some repugnant examples of extreme sadism towards Germans, there is absolutely no evidence to show that this was part of an official policy of extermination.”
― Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

“Moral philosophy is very largely a branch of fiction. Despite this, a philosopher has yet to write a great novel. The fact should not be surprising. In philosophy the truth about human life is of no interest”
― John N. Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

“As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.”
― John N. Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals