“If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.” IfsCommunityViewsSeriousAuthorityBehaviorHappeningsOrdinaryScientistFundamentalsDisturbingBaltimore Book:Challenges Source: Challenges
“Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one's own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism. Zen, therefore, is more than meditation and Dhyana in its ordinary sense. The discipline of Zen consists in opening the mental eye in order to look into the very reason of existence.” MindLooksRealSoulReasonEyePurposeOrderNatureExistenceMeditationObjectsMastersBuddhismDisciplineOrdinaryFundamentalsInsightOpeningZen BuddhismDhyana Book:An Introduction to Zen Buddhism Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs.” PeopleRealityLife IsBenefitsOrdinaryFundamentalsPlusPromotingUps & DownsPreventingMinus Author:Muso Soseki
“To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state is benevolent, governed by the loftiest intentions, adopting a defensive stance, not an actor in world affairs but only reacting to the crimes of others...If even the harshest of critics tacitly adopt these premises, then the ordinary person may ask, who am I to disagree?” IfsWorldMayPersonsStatesActorsAsksAcceptingAchieveCrimeOrdinaryFundamentalsIntentionCriticsAffairDebateDoctrineDisagreeInquiryPremisesStanceReactingBenevolentAdoptingRespectabilityOrdinary PersonWorld Affairs Author:Noam Chomsky
“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.” WorldRealitySpaceMiddleObjectsOrdinaryAccountsFundamentalsStructureAssumingRejectsFlatsTime And Space Author:L.A. Paul
“I argue, based on metaphysical and physical considerations, that we should think of the fundamental parts of the world as a mix of intrinsic natures, rather like a paint-pot filled with a rainbow of colors, loosely mixed to give a richly varied, spatiotemporally inseparable, spread of qualities, and that this mixture is what gives rise to ordinary reality.” ThinkingWorldGivingShouldRealityQualityColorOrdinaryFundamentalsFilledPaintSpreadArguingConsiderationPotRainbowMetaphysicalMixturesInseparable Author:L.A. Paul
“Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.” MeanSocialSpeechOrdinaryFundamentalsInstructionVocabularyIntercourse Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.” PeopleThinkingWayValuesRevolutionKingsCitizensOrdinaryTransformationCrisisFundamentalsResponseEverydayPrioritiesOne WordWay Of ThinkingPublic LifeTransfersOrdinary Citizens Author:Cornel West
“Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.” PeopleKnowsStillsImportantFactsUniverseIgnoranceStrangeHigherOrdinaryFundamentalsWarmBoundariesIgnorantPlanesConfusedUncertainOrdinary PeopleDiscworldBewilderedOrdinary Things Author:Terry Pratchett
“Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.” PeopleActionJobsProcessClearEffectsParticularNeededTerribleMoralityAuthorityStandardsOrdinaryResourcesFundamentalsAgentsObedienceDestructiveOrdinary PeopleHostilityObedience To Authority Author:Stanley Milgram
“The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.” PeopleNeedsShouldImportantReasonProblemTodayFallNationsAchieveIgnoranceMassOrdinaryConcernFundamentalsComplexesAffairProsperityEducationalCorePrimariesDeclinePrincipalRequirementsPromotionUrgentParamountUninformedUniversal Education Author:Abdu'l-Bahá