Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the situation in the direction of structural improvements. — Max Wertheimer Share this quote Post on X Facebook Download image Copy quote Copy link Share… Another quote → Topics Mind
Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes.
What occurs when, now and then, thinking really works productively? What happens when, now and then, thinking forges ahead? What is really going on in such a process?
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. Kenneth Boulding to Kenneth Boulding in: United States. Congress. House (1973)
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)