"In ordinary life, we are not aware of……" — Fritjof Capra
"In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is useful and necessary to cope with our everyday environment, but it is not a fundamental feature of reality. It is an abstraction devised by our discriminating and categorising intellect. To believe that our abstract concepts of separate 'things' and 'events' are realities of nature is an illusion."
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46 Quotes by Fritjof Capra
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and…
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
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