“The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry.” MindSocialGrowsFieldsOrdinaryTasksPressesDetailsSensesSignificanceCivilizedHuntersCognitionNaturalistWoodlandSmall DetailsScanningPleasantries Author:E. O. Wilson
“The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.” MenMindCreativityInspireOrdinaryMen And WomenExtraordinaryDetailsResolutionDiscomfortHarmoniousIngenuityFeatsOrdinary ManPerplexityTantalizing Author:Brian Greene
“Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance of the formalism and by a generous admixture of common sense, as well as a thorough understanding both of the basic concepts and of the technical details of the formal material used. It should not be supposed that the formalism can grind out philosophical results in a manner beyond the capacity of ordinary philosophical reasoning. There is no mathematical substitute for philosophy.” ShouldWellsPhilosophyUsedUnderstandingResultsCommonMaterialsOrdinaryConceptsCapacityToolsPhilosophicalDetailsCommon SenseMathematicalGenerousReasoningLogicalSignificanceSubstitutesInvestigationFormalSensitivityGrindThoroughThorough Understanding Author:Saul Kripke
“There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.” ArtRealFormVirtueModernStyleDivinePoetGeniusOrdinaryBreathsAncientDetailsBreatheMoodIronyItalianInteriorsSurveysExteriorTranscendentalEntiretyHistrionic Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail....The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life.” SoulSpiritualSpiritualityJourneyMomOrdinarySacredIncludingDetailsGloriousAfternoonSaturdayMondayMundaneBeing A MomRainyOrdinary LifeTuesdaySpiritual JourneySaturday Afternoon Author:Christina Baldwin
“Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way.” WayNeedsMindDifferentViewsGreatnessOrdinaryOriginalsDetailsDifferent Ways Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“Quote from CARE OF THE SOUL...Thomas Moore ...to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfullness and art, have an effect far beyond their apparant insignificance.” ArtSoulCareMinutesEffectsActivityOrdinaryDetailsInsignificance Author:Thomas Moore
“With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.” WorldWholeFatherLostStreetsObjectsChangedSceneOrdinaryEverydayDetailsEveryday LifeIrreplaceableMemento Book:The Museum of Innocence Source: The Museum of Innocence
“Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical, and significantly different from that of a pig or horse. You may be impressed by how much human beings differ from one another, but if you were to look into the fine details of the molecules of which they are constructed, you would be astonished by their similarity.” IfsHumansLooksMayDifferentWould BeScienceDifferencesChanceHuman BeingsMinesFineThousandTenStandardsOrdinaryHorseDetailsAtomsPigsImpressedIdenticalChances AreSimilarityMoleculesContaining Author:Francis Crick