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this first chapter orbits around a twentieth-century French philosopher and historian of Iranian mystical literature (Shi‘i, Ismaili, and Zoroastrian) by the name of Henry Corbin (1903–1978). Still on the surface, it traces a particular
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“Man is many things, but rational is not one of them.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray”
― Connection: Hollywood Storytelling meets Critical Thinking
― Connection: Hollywood Storytelling meets Critical Thinking
“Wicked problems are social problems. Global warming requires individuals to change what they are ‘doing’ in enough numbers to reverse the damage. But they won’t do that unless their ‘being’ can be changed and they can be connected with enough like-minded individuals through ‘relating’ to push through the change that alters the ‘doing’ and the actual interacting.”
― Wicked & Wise: How to solve the world's toughest problems
― Wicked & Wise: How to solve the world's toughest problems
“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“Einstein wrote, “Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.”
― The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness
― The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness
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