“I can look at the world aslant by using an unusual form and thus take hold of an idea in a unique way.”
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Canadian poet 1956Related quotes
2015, Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly (September 2015)
“Ideas change the world, but they do it by assuming shape, they do it by taking concrete form.”
Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 6, Structure, p. 60
Source: Organizations and Environments, 1979, p. 40; cited in: Frank Marutollo (1990). Organizational Behavior in the Marine Corps. p. 33
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 6
Context: The world of underlying form is an unusual object of discussion because it is actually a mode of discussion itself. You discuss things in terms of their immediate appearance or you discuss them in terms of their underlying form, and when you try to discuss these modes of discussion you get involved in what could be called a platform problem. You have no platform from which to discuss them other than the modes themselves.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: Voluntary assimilation, known as Indianization in the Americas, is one response that has occurred at other places and in other times when two cultures collided. An unusual manifestation of it is when the whole dominant culture takes up the ways of the conquered. That does not happen very often, but it did occur when the Hyksos conquered Egypt about 1700 B. C. and when the Romans conquered the Greeks in the second century B. C.
Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 413)
The Steel Tsar (1981)
Studio International 171 – June 1966, p. 280
1961 - 1975