“individual thought is mostly the result of collective thought and of interaction with other people. The language is entirely collective, and most of the thoughts in it are. Everybody does his own thing to those thoughts – he makes a… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share
The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can… — David Bohm Copy Share
Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including… — David Bohm Copy Share
“Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brain structure and function, and how the mind… — David Bohm Copy Share
...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment. — David Bohm Copy Share
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without… — David Bohm Copy Share
“If we all had to do a job together, we would likely find that each one of us would have different opinions and assumptions,… — David Bohm Copy Share
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either… — David Bohm Copy Share
A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly… — David Bohm Copy Share
Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind; we have… — David Bohm Copy Share
The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant… — David Bohm Copy Share
In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is. — David Bohm Copy Share
“[T]here is a universal flux that cannot be defined explicitly but which can be known only implicitly, as indicated by the explicitly definable forms… — David Bohm Copy Share
“Q: Isn't the employment of thought in the psychological sense synonymous with corruption? Bohm: Why do you say that? Q: Are there not only… — David Bohm Copy Share
