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Iain McGilchrist
“we have to be constantly vigilant to undermine language’s attempt to undermine our understanding.”
Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

Desmond Tutu
“Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]”
Desmond Tutu

Iain McGilchrist
“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This has its good side, and its bad. It aids consistency of reference over time and space. But it can also exert a restrictive force on what and how we think. It represents a more fixed version of the world: it shapes, rather than grounds, our thinking.”
Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart…I’ll always be with you.”
Carter Crocker, Disney's Pooh's Grand Adventure The Search for Christopher Robin

Iain McGilchrist
“Every thing that purports to be the truth is, according to Heidegger, inevitably an approximation and true things, things that really are, rather than as we may apprehend them, are in themselves ineffable, ungraspable.”
Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

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