#form

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#cultural #culture #enough #evolution #first

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#culture #cultures #description #history #ideally

We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#efficient #energy #energy sources #existing #forms

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #finally #fitting #only #performs

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#act #animal #box #comparison #does

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#any #bug #difficult #disease #especially

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#character #find #heart #know #live

Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#democrats #economic #economic recovery #economy #even

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#everything #except #first #form #grow

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete. ↗

— Jean Tinguely

#complete #form #manifest #me #revolt