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Contour
” The spiritual world is not a world of unrealised ideals, over against a real world of unspiritual fact. It’s on the contrary, the real world, of which we have a true though very incomplete knowledge, over against a world of common experience which, as a complete whole, is not real, since it’s compacted out…
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Perspective
“Knowledge is ultimate. There can be no explanation of the ‘ Why ‘ of knowledge ; we can only describe the ‘ What ‘ of knowledge . Namely we can analyse the content and it’s internal relations , but we cannot explain why there is knowledge. Thus causal nature is a metaphysical chimera ; though…
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Position
” In all discussions of Nature we must remember the differences of scale, and in particular the differences of time-span. We are apt to take modes of observable functioning of the human body as setting an absolute scale. It is extremely rash to extend conclusions derived from observation far beyond the scale of magnitude to…
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Rotation
” In order to perceive fullness , one must retain an acute sense of emptiness which marks it off ; conversely , in order to perceive emptiness , one must apprehend other zones of the word as full. ” – Susan Sontag
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Circle
” Meanwhile science as technique was building up in practical men a quite different outlook from any that was to be found among theretical philosphers. Technique conferred a sense of power : man is now much less at the mercy of his environment than he was in former times. But the power conferred by technique…
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Art Book – Water sculpture No.6 – Rhythm | 9 Min 11s | Year 2018
” When through the water’s thickness I see the tiled bottom of the pool, I do not see it despite the water and the reflections; I see it through them and because of them. If there were no distortions,no ripples of sunlight, If it were without that flesh that i saw the geometry of the…
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