“The term 'catholic' (katholikos, a Greek word adopted by the Latin Church) does not mean universal (that is, 'inclusive,' 'encompassing,' and hence by implication to some degree bounding) but rather, in its Greek etymology, kata + holos, through-the-whole, outgoing, expansive.”Tagged: Italian Pagan Catholicism, Etymology, Word Origins, Catholic
“Total explicitness is impossible. The effort of formal logic to make thought entirely explicit, while an admirable and in many ways indispensable and fantastically productive effort, is ultimately doomed to failure and entails deep psychological strain because of its unreality. Thought can only be…”Tagged: Logic Against Logic, Against Objectivity, Open Closure
“Hypervisualism tends to neglect this truth and even sets out to reduce sound itself, and for that matter all the other senses, to vision through devices such as charts and wave measurements, mathematical or oscillographic, forgetting that none of these make any noise and that hence, however…”Tagged: Hypervisualism, Reductionism
“Openness does not mean lack of organization, lack of principle, or lack of all resistance. For the human being, at least, it means quite the contrary: the strengthening of organization, principles, and resistance where needed, so that interaction with the outside can be strong and real. Indeed,…”Tagged: Openness, Organization
“Homo sapiens has been in existence for between 30,000 and 50,000 years. The earliest script dates from only 6000 years ago.”Tagged: History Of Communication, History Of Writing, When Did Writing Emerge?, Emergence of Writing In History
“We have all heard it said that one picture is worth a thousand words. Yet, if this statement is true, why does it have to be a saying? Because a picture is worth a thousand words only under special conditions—which commonly include a context of words in which the picture is set.”Tagged: Photography, Walter Ong
“The frames of thought in which the observations are set are often of more significance than the observations themselves.”Tagged: Medium = Message
“If in the evolution of consciousness we include the growth of consciousness out of the unconscious, it is evidently impossible completely, or even significantly, to plan what the next stage of consciousness will be. Consciously developed plans may affect the next stage of consciousness but they…”Tagged: Consciousness, Epistemology, Evolution, Unreason
“Real time has no divisions at all, but is uninterruptedly continuous: at midnight yesterday did not click over into today. No one can find the exact point of midnight, and if it is not exact, how can it be midnight? And we have no experience of today as being next to yesterday, as it is represented…”Tagged: Time, Illusionary Time
“It is quite true that today a great deal of art grows out of exhibitionist impulses. Certainly some of the worst does. Maybe some of the best. It may even be possible that all art involves a certain exhibitionism at least of some vague sublimated kind.”Tagged: Art, Exhibitionism, Liberal Arts, Reality Hunger
“To be present to himself, man must find the presence of another or others. Man's life-world is the opposite of solipsist: it is a world not of presence but of presences. In presences we mature. Each individual I finds himself by dealing with a thou, and another thou, and another. The presence of…”Tagged: Presences, Relationalism
“Discourse about a subject requires distance or 'objectivity' as well as proximity: the known has to be set off somehow from the knower.”Tagged: Knowing Knowing, Knowledge Approaches, Proximity
“What was earlier inviolably intimate or totally inaccessible is often now on total public display.”Tagged: Digital Intimacy, Voyureism
“There is no way to break down into individual articulated items the absolute totality of even one person’s history, much less of the entirety of human existence or of the entire universe—or even of a baseball game.”Tagged: The Impossibility Of Articulation, It Can Never Be Said , Limits of Logic, How Can It Ever Be Captured? , Deep
“We can keep our thinking and experiments as logical as possible, but the truth has to be worked out to some degree at random and then tested for logicality after we have stumbled on it by ways which may well involve some logic but involve much more besides.”Tagged: Logic Is An Aftermath, Against Logic, Logicality, Never Ending Story, Forever Grasping
“Order is often a very desirable good and can be indispensable to intelligence and understanding, but to reduce intelligence simply to order is to trivialize intelligence.”Tagged: order, Epistemology, The Logic Force, Forcing Logic
“Something is always concealed. For no manifestation reveals everything, and interpretation, no matter how carefully formulated, can never be total in its verbal formulation.”Tagged: Limits of Knowledge, Concealment, Forever Grapsing, Epistemology
“What was earlier inviolably intimate or totally inaccessible is often now on total public display.”Tagged: Quote of the Moment, The Digital Age, Exhibitionism In The Digital Age