Quotes About Structure

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

I know...but just the same" – this is Octave Mannoni's formulation of the structure of the fetish, and more generally of fetishistic thinking. The fetishist knows that an old, cherished belief is false but nonetheless continues to believe it. The nonetheless is not articulated, it is the fetish.

Our propositions are true if they have the same structure as the world. Truth is a correspondence through structure.

College took Elizebeth's innate tendency to doubt and gave it a structure, a justification. At Wooster and Hillsdale she discovered poetry and philosophy, two methods of exploring the unknown, two scalpels for carving up fact and thought.

Chaos should not be the natural state at work.

A.T. Kearney research shows that the best performing companies had five hundred fewer managers per billion dollars in sales than poorer performing organizations.

Paradoxically, the occult can often become the concern, in different modes, of both the least intelligent and also the most aberrantly intelligent human beings, with those soundly in the middle of the bell curve often unable to tell the difference between genuine intellectual exploration of the universe's unfathomable and mysterious structure and pre-literate superstition.

Fluir en la vida acontece cuando se alcanza la libertad y ésta no es otra cosa más que el logro de la trascendencia con respecto a toda estructura limitante.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

The egoic mind is completely conditioned by the past. Its conditioning is twofold: It consists of content and structure.

In other words, the content of the ego may change; the mind structure that keeps it alive does not.

Unease, restlessness, boredom, anxiety, dissatisfaction, are the result of unfulfilled wanting. Wanting is structural, so no amount of content can provide lasting fulfillment as long as that mental structure remains in place. Intense wanting that has no specific can often be found in the still-developing ego of teenagers, some of whom are in a permanent state of negativity and dissatisfaction.

The unconscious compulsion to enhance one's identity through association with an object is built into the very structure of the egoic mind.

The cosmos is not chaotic. The very word chaos means order.

The unconscious compulsion to enhance one's identity through association with an object is built into the very structure of the egoic mind.

Good order is the foundation of all good things.

organised structure is the most precious thing in the universe

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Aber keine semantische Ordnung kann allein auf solchen Binarismen beruhen, weil neben den festen immer auch bewegliche, ihren Platz im Feld wechselnde Elemente notwendig sind, um überhaupt Ordnung in der Zeit herzustellen.

The kind of sociopolitical structure that Protestantism engenders—based on free inquiry, participatory politics, and limited government—tends to favor market economics.

There is no art more akin to mysticism than architecture.