"[M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned by our consitution to treat these representations as if they were the world, for our everyday experience feels as if it were of a given and immediate world."

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Source : "The Embodied Mind". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 142, 1991.

Francisco Varela

#People Quotes #Everyday Quotes #World Quotes

“Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste”

Source : Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1859). “An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography”, p.165
“The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.”
“Listen first and never stop listening.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dave Kerpen from Sep 26, 2013
“Girls of all kinds can be beautiful; from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned”
“Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.”

Source : Ernst Haeckel (1887). “The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes: A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular”
“You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.”
“Reality cannot be photographed or represented. We can only create a new reality. And my dilemma is how to make art out of a reality that most of us would rather ignore. How do you make art when the world is in such a state? My answer has been to make mistakes, but when I can, to choose them. We are all guilt victims choosing mistakes, and as Godard said, the very definition of the human condition is in the mise-en-scéne itself.”
“In a dream you are never eighty.”

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