C. Wright Mills (1916–1962) American sociologist
"The Cultural Apparatus"
Power, Politics, and People (1963)
“Be aware of doing your best to understand the ROOT in life, and realize the DIRECT and the INDIRECT are in fact a complementary WHOLE.”
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 11
Context: Be aware of doing your best to understand the ROOT in life, and realize the DIRECT and the INDIRECT are in fact a complementary WHOLE. It is to see things as they are and not to become attached to anything — to be unconscious meant to be innocent of the working of a relative (empirical) mind — where there is no abiding of thought anywhere on anything — this is being unbound. This not abiding anywhere is the root of our life.
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Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French chemist and microbiologist
L' univers est dissymetrique...
Works Vol. 1 (1 June 1874) Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Source: Munich - Speech of April 12, 1922 https://archive.org/stream/TheSpeechesOfAdolfHitler19211941/hitler-speeches-collection_djvu.txt
“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”
David Nicholls book One Day
Variant: You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
Source: One Day
Jerome David Salinger (1919–2010) American writer
As quoted in The Twentieth Century (1972) by Caroline Farrar Ware, p. 429
D. S. Bradford (1982) musician
Elemental Evolution announcement, Muzic Magazine (July 25, 2016)
Context: Humans. Our world and everything in it, through direct and indirect actions, evolves to survive and adapt. We are peaceful, but we are also destructive. Elemental Evolution is about evolving into a form of ourselves that is conscious of peace and embraces love.
“We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing.”
Philip K. Dick book VALIS
VALIS (1981)
Context: We hypostasize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outwards once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing.
Freeman Dyson book The Scientist as Rebel
Part I : Contemporary Issues in Science, Ch. 1 : "The Scientist as Rebel"
The Scientist As Rebel (2006)
Context: The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole. A reductionist philosophy, arbitrarily proclaiming that the growth of understanding must go only in one direction, makes no scientific sense. Indeed, dogmatic philosophical beliefs of any kind have no place in science.
