“The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.” StatesTodayResultsViolenceEventsCreationSpontaneousSequenceInterference Book:The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
“When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.” CountryNationsResultsSpecialCitizensOrdinaryAbsolutesTradeCongressPrivilegeJewAgreementSovietSpontaneousAnti SemitismBlockedOutbreaksTrade AgreementsBe Spontaneous Author:Alan Brien
“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.” MayTwoResultsFiguresExerciseActivityConsciousMathematicsTrainIntuitionDrawingMathematicalCombinationJudgementReasoningArrangementsSpontaneousPropositionsFacilityIngenuitySuitable Author:Alan Turing
“Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.” ResultsTeachingAdultsFundamentalsAssumingUnusualSpontaneous Author:Alison Gopnik
“All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.” ReligionNaturalResultsEffortFlowerSummerRainRejoiceDiamondSpontaneousSparkleTrue ReligionSummer Rain Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.” ValuesResultsPowerSeeingSpontaneousBeing Free Author:Carole Katchen
“The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.” SaidEndsWholeTruthResultsSubjectsDevelopmentBecomingEssenceAbsolutesSpontaneous Book:Phenomenology of Spirit Source: Phenomenology of Spirit