“The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more… — William James Copy Share Image
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory;… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“They say that, if we manage to live without too great an effort, it is entirely owing to the automatism which makes… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
“It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, what will be troublesome for you in all this is chiefly that in childhood there was implanted in you—and… — G.I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
“Machines produce only machines. The texts, images, films, speech and programmes which come out of the computer are machine products, and they… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
