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“Disorder is simply the order we are not looking for.”
― The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics
― The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics
“The destructive action of time only allows what is superior to time to survive.”
― Studies in Hinduism: Collected Works
― Studies in Hinduism: Collected Works
“This ‘specialization’, arising from an analytical attitude of mind, has been pushed to such a point that those who have undergone its influence are incapable of conceiving of a science that deals with nature in its entirety.”
― The Crisis of the Modern World
― The Crisis of the Modern World
“Perhaps a film which strictly and in all respects satisfied the code of the Hays Office might turn out a great work of art, but not in a world in which there is a Hays Office.”
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Of all the superstitions preached by those very people who profess that they never stop inveighing against "superstition," that of "science " and "reason", is the only one which does not seem, at first sight, to be based on sentiment ; but there is a kind of rationalism which is nothing more than sentimentalism disguised, as is shown only too well by the passion with which its champions uphold it, and by the hatred which they evince for whatever goes against their inclinations or passes their comprehension, Besides, since rationalism, in any case, corresponds to a lessening of intellectuality, it is natural that its development should go hand in hand with that of sentimentalism”
― East and West
― East and West
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