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“Ce que Goldstein a révélé chez ses malades c'est l'instauration de nouvelles normes de vie par une réduction du niveau de leur activité, en rapport avec un milieu nouveau mais rétréci. Le rétrécissement du milieu, chez les malades atteints de lésions cérébrales, répond à leur impuissance à répondre aux exigences du milieu normal, c'est-à-dire antérieur. En milieu non sévèrement abrité, ces malades ne connaîtraient que des réactions catastrophiques ; or pour autant que le malade ne succombe pas à la maladie, son souci est d'échapper à l'angoisse des réactions catastrophiques. D'où la manie de l'ordre, la méticulosité de ces malades, leur goût positif de la monotonie, leur attachement à une situation qu'ils savent pouvoir dominer. Le malade est malade pour ne pouvoir admettre qu'une norme. Pour employer une expression qui nous a déjà beaucoup servi, le malade n'est pas anormal par absence de norme, mais par incapacité d'être normatif.”

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Book:The Normal and the Pathological
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“L'homme, même physique, ne se limite pas à son organisme. L'homme ayant prolongé ses organes par des outils, ne voit dans son corps que le moyen de tous les moyens d'actions possibles. C'est donc au-delà du corps qu'il faut regarder pour apprécier ce qui est normal ou pathologique pour ce corps même. Avec une infirmité comme l'astigmatisme ou la myopie on serait normal dans une société agricole ou pastorale, mais on est anormal dans la marine ou dans l'aviation. Donc on ne comprend bien comment, dans les milieux propres à l'homme, le même homme se trouve à des moments différents normal ou anormal, ayant les mêmes organes, que si l'on comprend comment la vitalité organique s'épanouit chez l'homme en plasticité technique et en avidité de domination du milieu.”

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Book:The Normal and the Pathological
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“Inversement, le propre de la maladie c'est d'être une réduction de la marge de tolérance des infidélités du milieu. Cette réduction consiste à ne pouvoir vivre que dans un autre milieu et non pas seulement parmi quelques-unes des parties de l'ancien. Au fond l'anxiété populaire devant les complications des maladies ne traduit que cette expérience.”

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Book:The Normal and the Pathological
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“What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures (...) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation.”

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Author:George Scialabba
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“In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.”

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Book:How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
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“In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways considered best for achieving freedom and solidarity in economic life; the ways believed to correspond more closely with justice and freedom for the distribution of the means of production and the products of labour among men. Bakunin was an anarchist, and he was a collectivist, an outspoken enemy of communism because he saw in it the negation of freedom and, therefore, of human dignity.”

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Book:Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta
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“I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria which may help us distinguish institutions which merit development because they support learning in a deschooled milieu; and to clarify those personal goals which would foster the advent of an Age of Leisure (schole) as opposed to an economy dominated by service industries.”

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Author:Ivan Illich
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“Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature, technology and social theory, nor planning have the Universities figured as originators or as seedbeds of new talents and energies.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer
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“More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deliberate attempt to understand the thoughts of the great masters of the past, to see in what circumstances or intellectual milieu their ideas were formed, where they took the wrong turning or stopped short on the right track.”

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Author:Ronald Fisher
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“When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.”

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Author:Marcel Proust
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“To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.”

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Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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“Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.”

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Book:The Problem of Method
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“[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact that you could be this fabulous visual artist, with all this milieu of people like Diego Rivera and you could sleep with these gorgeous, amazing women, that you could live that life - that photography could deliver you that life.”

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Author:Max Pam
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“I get letters every week from people who live in rural Texas or rural Mississippi and who feel totally alone. They feel like they must be the strangest person in the world. They don't fit in to the religious milieu of their communities. It doesn't make any sense to them. They read some of my columns and they know that there's somebody in the world at least as crazy as they are, and so they write and say is there anybody else?”

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Author:John Shelby Spong
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“We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked.”

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Author:Adrienne Rich
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“I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or even a Ukrainian revolution. But the idea of an American revolution does not occur to most people. And when I came down to the movement milieu seventy-five years ago, the black movement was just starting, and the war in Europe had brought into being the "Double V for Victory" [campaign]: the idea was that we ought to win democracy abroad with democracy at home. And that was the beginning of an American revolution, and most people don't recognize that.”

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Author:Grace Lee Boggs
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