“I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual & critical forces I possess—let it breed another, let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred out of the other two together, a fourth contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict.” FirstsMadeTwoTogetherForceConflictLimitsIntellectualThirdsCriticalFourthFormalContradictoryRight Words Author:Dylan Thomas
“I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought.” PeopleDifferentMightSpaceConflictDespairIntellectualToolsSeekingDebateFamiliarAppropriateDivisionConventionalComfortingTacticsFrameworkAxesSimplificationDichotomyPersuading Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.” NeedsTryingHumansRealValuesDisciplineConflictIntellectualEthicsAriseAbstractHuman NeedsReal Human Author:John Ziman
“[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.” SelfReasonHandsEnemyConflictIntellectualServingInquiryAvoidanceMaidensSelf Serving Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions.” TwoDifferentAmericaIndividualForceResultsCommonLeaderMoralMilitaryConflictIntellectualFunctionCrisisIraqOperationsExplanationOfficersVietnamAdviseCiviliansInsufficientMoral FailureCulpability Author:Paul Yingling
“Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by nature, by robots, or by fungal infections in and around one's nether-country. Stories need conflict across the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual spectra. Accidents, betrayals, cataclysm, desperation, excess - these are the letters in the alphabet of conflict.” PeopleNeedsWritingCountrySometimesCharacterStoriesSpiritualChallengesLinesEmotionalConflictIntellectualLettersBetrayalAccidentsFlatsExcessDesperationRobotsAlphabetInfection Author:Chuck Wendig
“The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this reason I do not think that those who are concerned about the future of a religious attitude should trouble themselves about the conflict of science with traditional doctrines.” ThinkingShouldReasonReligionSocialReligiousAttitudeClearTroubleConditionsConflictIntellectualConcernedDoctrineTraditionalAdaptedSocial Conditions Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930 Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930
“It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.” WarMomentsIntegrityConflictIntellectualConvictionThat MomentCrucialMusterPhysical CourageCrucial Moments Book:Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57 Source: Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57