“Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.” IfsHumansWellsUniverseIndividualHuman BeingsProgressEvolutionFundamentalsSeriesDesirablePermanenceHallmarkFluxAlterationsStasis Book:Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Source: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
“Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.” PeopleIdeasCharacterStoriesIndividualTvsPerspectiveSeriesIntentionCaughtGood IdeasCaught UpTv SeriesIndividual LifeBest IntentionsStory People Author:Anton Corbijn
“Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.” MindMeanCertainIndividualAnswersResultsVirtueCapableSeriesObservationPermitCapabilityQuestioningFiniteMeasurement Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief and action does so only as a means of better grasping one dominant goal the patterns of individual redemption. Stirner and Nietzsche are not primarily interested in critique as such. ... Their work is too egoistically compelled for them ever to employ the external world as more than the repository for a series of projections of their own.” ThinkingWorldMeanDoeActionIndividualBeliefGoalSeriesPatternsRedemptionAlternativesDominantCompelledProjectionCritiqueIntrospectiveGraspingBelief And Action Author:John Carroll
“Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically.” IndividualAtheismIdentityActivityCommitmentSeriesPositive AtheismIdeologyForgedIrreversible Author:Edgar Schein
“We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.” ChoicesIndividualProcessGrowthSituationHealthySafetyIndependenceSeriesDelightMaturityDependenceProgressionNever EndingConfrontingImmaturityFree ChoiceRegression Book:Toward a Psychology of Being Source: Toward a Psychology of Being
“I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a national ID card for all individuals present in the United States - citizens and noncitizens.” MayLittlesStatesIndividualUnitedWorryUnited StatesCitizensSeriesImmigrationCardsReformSenateProvisionComprehensivePathwaysImmigration Reform Author:Rand Paul