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Iain McGilchrist has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into…
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Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share…
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness…
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be…
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap…
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind…
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their…
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn…
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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense,…
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Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
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Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of…
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As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges…
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A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his…
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Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.
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Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them,…
— John Fowles
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Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.
— John L'Heureux
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Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that…
— George Lakoff
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A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep…
— Scott Bedbury
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