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“Perhaps… Analytical understanding must always be a basilisk which kills what it sees and only sees by killing…arrest this process before it reaches the common reason and kills that too.”
“We have to use numbers so much we tend to think of every process as if it must be like the numeral series, where every step, to all eternity, is the same kind of step as the one before.”
— 21 hours, 17 min ago
“We have to use numbers so much we tend to think of every process as if it must be like the numeral series, where every step, to all eternity, is the same kind of step as the one before.”
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Jana Wrenn
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“You cannot go on ‘seeing throughm things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it… It’s no use trying to ‘see through’ first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see.”
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Jana Wrenn
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“Nor must we postpone obedience to a precept until its credentials have been examined. Only those who are practicing the Tao will understand it.”
— Aug 14, 2026 07:50PM
Jana Wrenn
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Some educators have concluded in a world of emotional propaganda, they must “fortify the minds of young people against emotion…[instead, they] need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts…by starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist.”
— Jul 15, 2026 02:00PM