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“And indeed, it has been suggested that the defining moves in Chinese speculation work on a very different model, where words are part of, say, an exemplary skill-practice, meant to guide behavior in such a way as to alter perception and evaluation, rather than to describe what is really so or what is really good.”
― Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought; Prolegomena to the Study of Li
― Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought; Prolegomena to the Study of Li
“Yet the conceptions held by others are available to us, in the sense that when we truly understand their conception of things we come to recognize possibilities latent within our own rationality... and those ways of conceiving of things become salient for us for the first time, or once again. In other words, there is no homogenous "backcloth" to our world. We are multiple from the start.”
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“Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.”
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“Forget the damned motor car and build cities for lovers and friends.”
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“If you set your bar at ‘amazing’ it’s awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn’t going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you’ve created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that’s where you are.”
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