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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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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Love without evidence is stalking.
— Tim Minchin
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.
— Richard Dawkins
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To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly
— Socrates
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Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will…
— John Shimkus
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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
— J C Ryle
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In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
— Paul Davies
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The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here…
— Hu Shih
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
— Christopher Hitchens
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of…
— Nancy Pelosi
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