A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear load...ed with innuendo and fraught with implications.... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than l...eave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the con...dition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it--this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, becaus...e they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When it had long since outgrown his purely medical implications and become a world movement which penetrated into every field of s...cience and every domain of the intellect: literature, the history of art, religion and prehistory; mythology, folklore, pedagogy, and what not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To a joke, then, I owe my first gleam of consciousness--which again has recapitulatory implications, since the first creatures on ...earth to become aware of time were also the first creatures to smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a lang...uage that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for the... Atlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The difference between humans and other organisms is that humans, having discerned something of how evolution works, are now able ...to confront their choices consciously. That is not the same as saying that we can now control evolution. I don't know how much of a difference it is in effect: we may be able to perceive our choices and still be unable to choose and act. By overpopulating the planet as we are now doing, for example, we are making an evolutionary choice just as unplanned as that of our hominid ancestors when they began cracking antelope and other hominids over the head with sticks. Nevertheless, we do differ from the first hominids in our having some notion of the implications of our behavior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the s...prings of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »