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The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals.


Cliff Shaw


#concepts #express #ideals #joss #pure

The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, "The map is not the territory." Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as "The menu is not the meal.


Robert Anton Wilson


#knowledge #philosophy #science #experience

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.


Alan Wilson Watts


#philosophy #theory #words #money

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.


Jean-Jacques Annaud


#concepts #conveys #cultural #current #film

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.


Theodor Adorno


#closer #comes #concepts #eternal #eternal peace

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.


Neil Abercrombie


#came #concepts #exchanged #land #ownership

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.


Michelangelo Antonioni


#concepts #homer #living #man #moon

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.


Michelangelo Antonioni


#concepts #go #know #live #longer

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.


Hans Bender


#below #center #concepts #direction #does

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.


Lena Dunham


#awful #because #before #book #concepts






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