Quotes About World

Intelligence exhibited by human beings originates and perpetuates itself "neither with knowledge of the self nor of things as such but with knowledge of their interaction, and it is by orienting itself simultaneously toward the two poles of that interaction that intelligence organizes the world by organizing itself" (CR, pp. 354–355).

Piaget subscribed to the ordering and organizing function of the mind, but he believed that the forms and categories are not a priori but undergo development as a result of the subject's interaction with the world (OI, pp. 376–395).

Second, self and world cannot be known independently of each other: "[I]t is through progressive construction that the concepts of the physical world and of the internal self will become elaborated as a function of each other, and the processes of assimilation and accommodation are only instruments of this construction without ever representing the actual result of it" (OI, p. 136).

However, the construction of the social world does not receive the same level of attention in Piaget's work on infancy as the construction of the physical world.

Baillargeon's theory conceptualizes the mind as passive and relations between infants and the world as external, whereas Piaget's theory conceptualizes the mind as active and the relation between infant and world as internal.

intelligence organizes the world by organizing itself" (CR, pp.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

To do that would mean, not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat- and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going.

Day after day he roamed about in the arctic cold, his soul filled full of bitterness and despair. He saw the world of civilization then more plainly than ever he had seen it before; a world in which nothing counted but brutal might, an order devised by those who possessed it for the subjugation of those who did not.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts . . ., on those, she

OJ says our father lives somewhere between the self-satisfaction that his success has made us soft and disgust that we are unacquainted with the brutal intensity of a world that he has effectively tamed for us.

I'm walking walking walking to where the sun is setting. I'm looking at it and wanting to catch it in my hand and to be squeezing until color are dripping out from it forever. That way everywhere it is always dark and nobody is ever having to see any of the terrible thing that is happening in this world.

I'm still me, I want to say to him, your son, but that would hardly help if I am currently everything wrong with the world.

A road trip with a twist is sure to be when you take a visit to one of these outlandish destinations in the U S ex, CEDARS SPRINGS, MICHIGAN is RED FLANNEL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD-Author, V J SMITH, OFF THE WALL CAPITALS OF THE WORLD BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK

From old Ikshváku's15line he came, Known to the world by Ráma's name: With soul subdued, a chief of might

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.

In a whirlwind world, independent languor becomes a virtue, and meditation engenders a finer art than any nervousness

I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.

our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.

A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for.

most people never experience such a passion, that I had been incredibly, divinely fortunate to have found, in a world where most souls dig there own graves with the sharp edge of their bitter loneliness...

Hay dos fronteras en nuestro mundo: la del tiempo y la del lugar.

All of the world's peoples see evil in others, in foreigners and in their gods, and I fear there is no remedy for this. Thus they destroyed the most beautiful expressions of our civilization. Thus we destroy the most beautiful expressions of theirs.