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“Memories,’ she said, at last. ‘Not people, Emmett. We take memories and bind them. Whatever people can’t bear to remember. Whatever they can’t live with. We take those memories and put them where they can’t do any harm. That’s all books are”
― The Binding
― The Binding
“It’s important in life to get used to losing.”
― First Person Singular: Stories
― First Person Singular: Stories
“In cases of neurosis and psychosis, the unconscious attempted to compensate the one-sided conscious attitude. The unbalanced individual defends himself against this, and the opposites become more polarized. The corrective impulses that present themselves in the language of the unconscious should be the beginning of a healing process, but the form in which they break through makes them unacceptable to consciousness.”
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“what characterizes the empirical method is its manner of exposing to falsification, in every conceivable way, the system to be tested. Its
aim is not to save the lives of untenable systems but, on the contrary, to select the one which is by comparison the fittest, by
exposing them all to the fiercest struggle for survival.”
― The Logic of Scientific Discovery
aim is not to save the lives of untenable systems but, on the contrary, to select the one which is by comparison the fittest, by
exposing them all to the fiercest struggle for survival.”
― The Logic of Scientific Discovery
“Consciousness knows something; this something is the essence or is per se. This object, however, is also the per se, the inherent reality, for consciousness. Hence comes ambiguity of this truth. Consciousness, as we see, has now two objects: one is the first per se, the second is the existence for consciousness of this per se. The last object appears at first sight to be merely the reflection of consciousness into itself, i.e. an idea not of an object, but solely of its knowledge of that first object. But, as was already indicated, by that very process the first object is altered; it ceases to be what is per se, and becomes consciously something which is per se only for consciousness. Consequently, then, what this real per se is for consciousness is truth: which, however, means that this is the essential reality, or the object which consciousness has. This new object contains the nothingness of the first; the new object is the experience concerning that first object.”
― Phenomenology of Spirit
― Phenomenology of Spirit
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