Quotes About Structure

E]vil as an ontological presence exists in the very structure of being as part of a totality comprising opposites. Moreover, it exists because being is a structure and process of possibility, and possibility requires all options . . . Maat and isfet and their innumerable variations.

The object of biology is to grasp that which makes a living being a living being, that is, not--according to the realist postulate common to both mechanism and vitalism--the superposition of elementary reflexes or the intervention of a 'vital force,' but an indecomposable structure of behavior. It is by means of ordered reactions that we can understand the automatic reactions as degradations. Just as anatomy refers back to physiology, physiology refers back to biology.

Thus, a nocturnal reality of the soul, of the incorporeal--which is not nothing--but which needs to 'adorn' itself with the visible--which is like the opposite of the visible--The visible opens onto an invisible that is its relief or its structure and where identity is rather non-difference.

The structure 'world,' with its double movement of sedimentation and spontaneity, is at the center of consciousness.

What's a level? It's a typical activity, it's the universal context of an action in the world. Perceptual consciousness often consists in noticing divergence in relation to a level, and this divergence is the sense which is thus configuration or structure. This sense is less possessed than it is practiced: perhaps it can't be defined, but every aberrant fact is lived as deviation in relation to it. Thus perception adjusts imperfect circles, goes toward good forms.

The structure of behavior is neither thing nor consciousness, and it is this which renders it opaque to the mind.

The world, in those of its sectors which realize a structure, is comparable to a symphony.

One finds societies which do not have an Oedipus complex (cf. Malinowski). The Oedipus complex might be an 'institutiton' tied to the structure of our society.

Freudians argue that the psychological structure is the cause of civilization. Malinowski replaces a psychological causality with a sociological causality and takes the Oedipus complex as a product of civilization. But it is evident that the one thesis and the other are both inseparable and contradictory. We must construct a psychoanalysis and a sociology...which overtakes and synthesizes classical givens.

Just as there is an Ineinander of life and physiochemistry, i.e., the realization of life as a fold or a singularity of physiochemistry--or structure, so to is the human to be taken in the Ineinander with animality and Nature.

The perception of forms, understood very broadly as structure, grouping, or configuration should be considered our spontaneous way of seeing.

For the psychoanalyst, what is original is the structure of the body as an emblem of life.

There is an equipotentiality in tissue. A tissue gives the possible beyond its actual structure.

The actions in which I habitually engage incorporate their instruments and make them participate in the original structure of my own body. Moreover, my own body is the primordial habit, the one that conditions all others and by which they can be understood.

Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional elements which escape calculation.

Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.

Power structures were always fairly easy to figure out if you took a moment to observe the people involved.

It took some time for the hierarchy of Blessington to make sense

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

It takes real planning to organize this kind of chaos.

In short, what Brown, Enquist, and West are saying is that evolution structured our circulatory systems as fractal networks to approximate a "fourth dimension" so as to make our metabolisms more efficient. As West, Brown, and Enquist put it, "Although living things occupy a three-dimensional space, their internal physiology and anatomy operate as if they were four-dimensional … Fractal geometry has literally given life an added dimension.

The touch of chaos in the order - art required that.

All things happen in perfect order.

and continually evolving both the structure