Quotes About Tabula rasa

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

There was nothing to ruin. [Dean Redding]

Man is born a tabula rasa; he must learn how to choose the ends that are proper for him and the means that he must adopt to attain them. All this must be done by his reason.

I stand in the sacred human presence. As I do now, so should you stand some day. I pray to your presence that this be so. Let the future remain uncertain for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Thus the human condition faces its perpetual tabula rasa. We possess no more than this moment where we dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence we share and create.

The specious idea that gender differences are due entirely to culture, and have nothing to do with biological or archetypal predispositions, still enjoys wide currency in our society, yet it rests on the discredited tabula rasa theory of human development and is at variance with the overwhelming mass of anthropological and scientific evidence.

No learning rule can be entirely devoid of theoretical content nor can the tabula ever be completely rasa." 13

Borra, borra en tu memoria, vuelve a la tabula rasa de la infancia, llénate de futuro, despójate de pasado y ten presente que: el río no corre en reversa. Entre fantasmas, Fernando Vallejo

The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.

John Locke, rejecting a central thesis of Cartesian philosophy, argued that the mind was a tabula rasa, an empty vessel devoid of any innate ideas. As a result, it is passive in the knowing process. It simply receives "impressions" from the external world through the senses and then formulates ideas from the impressions it has gathered.

Es probable, por tanto, que el camino lento de la construcción institucional se abandone y se opte en cambio por la tabula rasa, por rehacer desde cero buena parte del aparato de seguridad y justicia, sin considerar las enormes dificultades que esa ruta entraña. El resultado no puede ser sino la frustración colectiva.

It is self-evident that the tabula rasa of modernization favors the optimum use of earth-moving equipment inasmuch as a totally flat datum is regarded as the most economic matrix upon which to predicate the rationalization of construction.

Byron; and, realistically, quite a number of those infants will die without my care, and Josephine is hardly a creature with potential, hardly anybody's idea of a tabula rasa, a blank slate—hell, she's a slate that's had bad math scrawled on it and then been waxed so that nothing can ever be written on it again. I've treated sheep that had more of a right to live.

If someone arrives, fully functional yet a tabula rasa, how does their environment influence, educate, even mold them? And if that is a nurture question, then where does that character's nature fit in? How does that manifest?

To try and forget, rasa the tabula, wipe the memory totally out, numb it with opiates.

This is where we start. Let it be blank. Blank is different from nothing.