the 19th century saw the rise of what we came to call…

If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented,…

— Joel Salatin

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

— Jennifer Stone

I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

— Anonymous

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can…

— Rudy Rucker

“If time were truly linear, she thought, it might have carried her away, leaving the pain behind.”

— Elizabeth Marek

“There is, then, an analogy–and perhaps more than mere analogy–between central vision and conscious, one-at-a-time thinking, and between peripheral vision and the rather mysterious…

— Alan Wilson Watts

The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not…

— Jeanette Winterson

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan

“Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines…

— Victor Villaseñor

Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily,…

— Sam Keen

Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow,…

— John Carroll

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

— Renata Adler

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

— Alan Watts

I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen in the…

— Keith Carter

Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what…

— Terry Eagleton