David Bohm Quotes

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• The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
• Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole…
• Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion…
• We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content,…
• In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the…
• In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.
• This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to…
• A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming…
• Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series…
• My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not…
• People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning…
• A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can…
• Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.
• There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and…
• Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves.…
• Universe consists of frozen light.
• But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual…
• During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of…
• So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for…
• Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual…

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