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The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is…
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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices…
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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but…
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What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
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Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.
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A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the…
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A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative…
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A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
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A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping…
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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness…
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Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural…
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Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they…
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always…
— Leonard Cohen
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All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky…
— Rajneesh
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Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so…
— Corinne Heline
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Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.
— Carl Jung
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The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent…
— Aaron Siskind
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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but…
— Edward Sapir
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True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.
— Oskar Kokoschka
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To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite…
— Kazimir Malevich
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The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an…
— Thomas Nagel
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Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.
— Neville Goddard
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I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see…
— Giorgio Morandi
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What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science…
— Lewis Mumford
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