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“In the track of fear we have so many conditions, expectations, and obligations that we create a lot of rules just to protect ourselves... when the truth is that there shouldn't be any rules. These rules affect the quality of the channels of communication between us.”

Quality Conditions Communication Truth Is Protect Expectations Track Obligation

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.”

People Way Firsts Humans Mean Art Order Pleasure Failing Conditions Communication Art Is Cease Human Life Reflecting Fine Arts Effective Communication

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms”

Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

“It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.”

People Ifs Knows Humans May Whole My Own Conditions Loneliness Painting Communication Reflection Human Condition Lack Of Communication

Author:Edward Hopper

“I do know people and there are people in my family who have had Alzheimer's and dementia, and I appreciate the importance of communication and having contact with them. Communicating is an interesting thing with a condition like that. Sometimes it's difficult to communicate. If the brain becomes atrophied or certain channels of the brain become atrophied, then contact is what becomes really important.”

“The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion of new technologies.”

Firsts Lost Technology Struggle Conditions Century Communication Achievement Twenties Determine Confusion Print Domain Free Society New Technology Great Achievement Electronic Communication

Book:Technologies of Freedom

Source: Technologies of Freedom

“Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In appearance, however, language develops only socially, and man understands himself only once he has tested the intelligibility of his words by trial upon others.”

Thinking Men Science Individual Language Understanding Conditions Communication Speech Appearance Trials Solitary Tested Seclusion

Author:Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben