| Quotes |
Topic |
| Boldness | If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. |
| Inspirational | Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. |
| Inspirational | Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. |
| Originality | The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. |
| Government | Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. |
| Government | ...we are apt to forget that the vast majority of men and women who fell under the totalitarian spell was activated by unselfish motives, ready to accept the role of martyr or executioner, as the cause demanded. |
| Government | War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars. |
| Psychological Subjects | ...the evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality. |
| Psychological Subjects | Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness. |
| Psychological Subjects | The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex. |
| Psychological Subjects | Brain-washing starts in the cradle. |
| Psychological Subjects | From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds. |
| Psychological Subjects | ...the more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards. |
| Psychological Subjects | The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. |
| Psychological Subjects | ...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. |
| Society | The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it. |
| Society | The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer. |
| Society | ...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. |
| Society | ...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination. |
| Society | ...one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. |
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