#differentiation

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar. ↗

— B.R. Ambedkar

#human-nature #rationality #society #change

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. ↗

— Alan Watts

#differentiation #happens #identify #our #us

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#animal world #characterised #consequent #departments #differentiation

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#advanced #america #belief #believed #differentiation

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#changes #differentiation #eminently #exists #god

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. ↗

— Herbert Read

#differentiation #measured #progress #society #within

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#differentiation #going #political #process #real

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. ↗

— Maya Lin

#brother #brought #differentiation #gender #i

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable. ↗

— André Gide

#inspirational #specialization #faith

How can families harm us when they love us? Very easily, unfortunately. Most of us overlook one important fact when we think love is enough: Love and respect aren't the same thing. Love is fusion. As a baby, you belong to your parents, you're extension of them. Respect is differentiation: you belong to yourself, and you're an extension of no one. Differentiation is essential for happiness of adults. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#individuation #parenting #family