RobokkuWed, Jan 14, 2009 What a superb reference! A new one to me. Others, too, please find it in its own context here. Thanks, Wildcat!
Even if that quote on its own makes you suspect it, there is nothing muddy or vague about this piece of writing, The World of Personality by Tagore. Here is another gem that I liked (but I'm sure you'll find plenty of your own if you have a read):
The phenomenon which a dog perceives as a smell does not keep its time with that of our nerves, therefore it falls outside our world.
Great. It's humbling to see ideas you can reach at full stretch handed out with relaxed elegance and on a grand scale. And such magic can be found even without looking at broad cosmic arrangements or science fiction scenarios.
We don't need to reach a future dystopia or an holistic spiritual awakening to open up our ideas - we don't even need to abandon or challenge entrenched rational principles. If we just realise that our consciousnesses are not operating to a scientifically rigorous specification every second we're awake, then we can choose to point the deviations at conceptions that are fun and fulfilling. Perhaps they wouldn't withstand analysis, but if we're never going to analyse them...
What a superb reference! A new one to me. Others, too, please find it in its own context here. Thanks, Wildcat!
Even if that quote on its own makes you suspect it, there is nothing muddy or vague about this piece of writing, The World of Personality by Tagore. Here is another gem that I liked (but I'm sure you'll find plenty of your own if you have a read):
Great. It's humbling to see ideas you can reach at full stretch handed out with relaxed elegance and on a grand scale. And such magic can be found even without looking at broad cosmic arrangements or science fiction scenarios.
We don't need to reach a future dystopia or an holistic spiritual awakening to open up our ideas - we don't even need to abandon or challenge entrenched rational principles. If we just realise that our consciousnesses are not operating to a scientifically rigorous specification every second we're awake, then we can choose to point the deviations at conceptions that are fun and fulfilling. Perhaps they wouldn't withstand analysis, but if we're never going to analyse them...