Mike Chitty

“These are not different ways of thinking about the world: they are different ways of being in the world. And their difference is not symmetrical, but fundamentally asymmetrical.”
― Iain McGilchrist, Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

“Language is not necessary for thinking, just for certain kinds of thinking. What was it for, then?”
― Iain McGilchrist, Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

“Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In life, in religion, in science, this I believe: any conviction worth its salt has chosen to cohabit with a piece of mystery, and that mystery is at the essence of the vitality and growth of the thing.”
― Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living