Quotes About Sedimentation

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

the more profound the statement, the more reversible; the deep truths are sedimented in syntax, the terms can be reversed, just as there is no principle of noncontradiction, no law of excluded middle, governing the unconscious. Then, briefly serious, Klaus would touch my shoulder: A quote like that can save your life.

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

We must recognize a sort of sedimentation of our life: when an attitude toward the world has been confirmed often enough, it becomes privileged for us...After having built my life upon an inferiority complex, continuously reinforced for twenty years, it is not likely that I would change.