Giannis Tsakiris

“Whatever the nature of organizing relations may be,' J. Needham wrote in 1932, 'they form the central problem of biology, and biology will be fruitful in the future only if this is recognized. The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon compounds to the equilibrium of species and ecological wholes, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.”
― Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation

“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This has its good side, and its bad. It aids consistency of reference over time and space. But it can also exert a restrictive force on what and how we think. It represents a more fixed version of the world: it shapes, rather than grounds, our thinking.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

“Hierarchies are 'dissectible' into their constituent branches, on which the holons form the 'nodes'. The number of levels which a hierarchy comprises is called its 'depth', and the number of holons on any given level its 'span'.”
― Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine

“The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern[.]”
― Alan W. Watts, The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness