Mark Rowlands Quotes

• Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple

  Mark Rowlands

  Lying, Apples, Deception

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• In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us.

  Mark Rowlands

  Ends, Defiance

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• What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.

  Mark Rowlands

  Live Your Life, Important, Coldness

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• What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point.

  Mark Rowlands

  Focus, Missing, Feelings

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• In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.

  Mark Rowlands

  Heart, Ends, Defiance

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• Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

  Mark Rowlands

  Animal, Civilization, Apes

  Mark Rowlands (2010). “The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness”, p.65, Pegasus Books

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