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“Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.”

Helping Courses Principles Security Source Function Instance Operations Insecurity Shelter

Author:David

“To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation or amputation”

Mind Humans Mean Body Healing Function Operations Remove Human Body Amputation

Author:Rudolf Breuss

“We have said that consciousness is an operation rather than a thing, a repository, or a function. It operates by way of analogy, by way of constructing an analog space with an analog 'I' that can observe that space, and move metaphorically in it. It operates on any reactivity, excerpts relevant aspects, narratizes and conciliates them together in a metaphorical space where such meanings can be manipulated like things in space.”

Way Said Together Moving Space Consciousness Aspect Function Operations Relevant Analogies Metaphorical Analog Reactivity

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart.”

Mind Heart Play Prayer Brain Roles Function Operations Sage Physiology Brain Function

Author:Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”

“Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.”

Mind Wonderful Function Madness Operations Machinery Astonishing Predictable Being Afraid Complication Simplification

Author:Kate Millett

“. . . the membership relation for sets can often be replaced by the composition operation for functions. This leads to an alternative foundation for Mathematics upon categories -- specifically, on the category of all functions. Now much of Mathematics is dynamic, in that it deals with morphisms of an object into another object of the same kind. Such morphisms (like functions) form categories, and so the approach via categories fits well with the objective of organizing and understanding Mathematics. That, in truth, should be the goal of a proper philosophy of Mathematics.”

“The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?”

“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.”

“Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.”

Government Democracy Impossible Information Function Access Operations Broads Citizenry Access To Information Informed Citizenry

Author:Ryan Shapiro

“The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.”

Mind Body Function Instruments Rewards Witness Operations Get Well

Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

“The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in the sciences.”

Art Science Understanding Nature Art Is Function Operations

Author:John Cage

“The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud