"The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes."

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“Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is like seeing a landscape or, better, a richly realized painting of a landscape dotted with figures. But that would leave out their music, which would be a loss. This is a wise and graceful book by a well-traveled woman who knows how to confront deep feeling and frame it to make it all the more intense.”
“If you really want to know something about me, you should know this: I like my music loud.”
“...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.”

Source : Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.181, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.”

Source : Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in the properties of populations of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual.”
“As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.”
“You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.”
“In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add up to what we have really wanted most--for good or otherwise. We can indeed have eternal life, if we really want it, so long as we don't want something else more.”

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