"The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact……" — Iain McGilchrist
"The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics."
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16 Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
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We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that…
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Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how…
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of…
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness…
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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…
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as…
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship…
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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…
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that…
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
— Francis Bacon
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
— Arthur Balfour
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP,…
— Bob Beauprez
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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
— Martha Beck
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
— Joseph Addison
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Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part…
— Annie Besant
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least…
— David Brainerd
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