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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#climbs #creative #creative people #explore #greater

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#change #deeds #fail #failing #how

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#curiosity #easily #get #give #imagination

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#me #months #nine #pages #took

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#alienation #beings #destiny #human #human beings

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#experience #gets #invents #labeled #live

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#been #before #degeneration #everybody #exhausted

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#einstein #few #knowledge #now #philosophers

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#better #emergence #theory

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved. ↗

— Greg Lake

#because #biggest #biggest lesson #fun #i