#observer

Smartass Disciple: If you are really a master, then make me see miracles! Master of Stupidity: Go to sleep and dream, then wake up thirty years later! ↗

— Toba Beta

#logic-of-the-observer #mindset #miracle #relativity #truth

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #behavior #concern #conscious #himself

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer. ↗

— Billy West

#kind #like #observation #observer #power

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ↗

— Andre Breton

#above #always #amazed #attaches #been

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#am #away #bear #brings #children

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#create #education #giving #means #observation

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

The detached observer's view is one window on the world. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#observer #view #window #world

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#go #i #java #just #microsoft

In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator. ↗

— Pir Vilayat Khan

#because #consciousness #creator #dream #experience