Changing Consciousness (1991)
Context: We often find that we cannot easily give up the tendency to hold rigidly to patterns of thought built up over a long time. We are then caught up in what may be called absolute necessity. This kind of thought leaves no room at all intellectually for any other possibility, while emotionally and physically, it means we take a stance in our feelings, in our bodies, and indeed, in our whole culture, of holding back or resisting. This stance implies that under no circumstances whatsoever can we allow ourselves to give up certain things or change them. <!-- p. 15
“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”
“We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization.”
The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
Source: "The Conduct of Inquiry", p. 53.
Quoted in Robin Heggelund Hansen, "Porting games to Linux" http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=203&num=1 hardware.no (2009-03-10)
Source: Twitter https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1234277472776183810, (1 March 2020)
“But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?”
Source: I Know This Much Is True
Cardinal Martinez reiterates Pope’s call for peace https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal_martinez_reiterates_popes_call_for_peace (August 9, 2006)
“You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.”
Source: Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories
