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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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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today…
— Marcus Aurelius
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No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
— Niels Bohr
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we…
— A. R. Ammons
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence…
— Wernher von Braun
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Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality,…
— Colman McCarthy
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There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and…
— Dan Barker
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Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful…
— Henry Mintzberg
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What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small…
— Albert Einstein
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There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has…
— Stephen King
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If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us.…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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