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“Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind.”

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.”

“My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.”

Important Problem Lying Study Objects Structure Application Venture Suggestions Phonetics

Book:A Study in English Metrics

Source: A Study in English Metrics

“We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.”

Matter Whole Facts Body Happens Objects Materials Shadow Areas Structure Casts Cease Organized Affected Phenomenon Cycling Sustaining Hyper Degrading Entropy Metabolism

Author:Terence McKenna

“A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.”

Earth Black Space Rich Air Objects Mountain Ocean Structure Holes Valleys Singularity Black Hole Tornadoes

Author:Kip Thorne

“I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.”

People Form Language Lines Common Objects Shapes Structure All Time Symbols Minimum Indication Intrigued

Book:Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbor's palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.”

Men Looks Might Beautiful Objects Thousand Economics Structure Property Neighbor Observation Grain Palaces Solomon Knowledge Gained

Author:Sarah Fielding

“Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind.”

“Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.”

Feelings Form Language Emotion Music Virtue Objects Music Is Structure Significant Symbols Significance Imports Sensuous

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.”

May Has Beens Science Turns Imagination Break Century Objects Jokes Structure Familiar Inherent Mathematician Lacking 19th Century Naturalism Nomenclature

Author:Freeman Dyson

“In accordance to the principles of doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”

Ifs Different War Real Matter Past Effort Principles Poverty Groups Subjects Objects Ignorance Victory Bases Structure East Versions Meant To Be Asia Ruling Starvation East Asia

Author:Michael Moore

“The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material objects. The Ideas are more fundamental than the objects.”

Ideas Form Given Objects Materials Fundamentals Structure Determine Atoms

Book:Across the frontiers

Source: Across the frontiers

“The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.”

Kind Process Space Design Objects Structure Adaptable

Book:Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

Source: Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

“A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.”

Different War Past Effort Principles Poverty Groups Subjects Objects Ignorance Victory Bases Structure East Versions Asia Ruling Starvation East Asia

Author:George Orwell

“The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.”

Thinking Needs Humans Doe Whole Moments Realizing Consciousness Fronts Objects Fit Accounts Structure Stereotype Human Consciousness Great Moments

Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

“I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves middle-sized objects in space and time, that fundamental reality must be essentially like that.”

World Reality Space Middle Objects Ordinary Accounts Fundamentals Structure Assuming Rejects Flats Time And Space

Author:L.A. Paul

“In the past few decades, there has been a revolution in how we perceive the body. What appears to be an object, a three-dimensional anatomical structure, is actually a process, a constant flow of energy and information.”

Has Beens Body Past Three Energy Process Information Objects Revolution Flow Structure Constant Decades Perceive

Author:Deepak Chopra

“In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather relevant data. Based on such data we come to know about the optic nerve, the structure of our eyes, the rods and cones, etc., so as to explain how it is that vision gives us reliable access to the shapes and colors of objects around us. In reliably arriving at that theory we thus exercise the very faculty whose reliability is explained by the theory. There is no vice in this sort of circularity.”

Knows Giving Use Eye Vision Objects Color Theory Exercise Shapes Structure Vices Access Data Etc Faculty Nerves Relevant Arriving Reliability Cones Specifics Circularity

Author:Ernest Sosa

“I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure of a human being or any animate object, and this could be directly translated into thinking about proportion and accent, rhythm in a pot form.”

Thinking Humans Form Found Human Beings Deals Objects Structure Drawing Rhythm Proportion Pot Accents

Author:Warren MacKenzie

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