Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The new paradigm may be called a holistic world view, seeing the world as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature:… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.” — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation;… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
