A Quote by Marquis de Sade
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one we are in most of the time is the alert mode. The 'take control of things' mode, the 'be careful, watch out' mode, the 'speed' mode - the 'Red Bull' mode, actually. There's nothing wrong with it. It's all part of what we are.
There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.
Time is but a mode of thought
Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.
First there was the word. A Course in Miracles says that prayer is the "medium of miracles." It's the realm of thought where we are aligned with the thought of God and therefore in a co- creative mode. It's where we surrender our minds to His mind and become empowered.
Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.
It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode.
A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.
The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
We need to be in the open mode when we are pondering a problem, but, once we come up with a solution, we must then switch to the closed mode to implement it.
The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
I thought it would be weird having sex with short hair but then I kind of got into the mode.
I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
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