Quotes About Rigidity

The planet Saturn, which represents anatomy, is the skeleton: It is a rigid structure upon which the rest of the body is built. To what moral qualities does this correspond? The first point of virtue in a bone is its rigidity, its resistance to pressure.

Resilience is a measure of a system's ability to survive and persist within a variable environment. The opposite of resilience is brittleness or rigidity.

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.

When some people come across a new idea that challenges their worldview they retreat into a tight, rigid scepticism.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

When you are operating under the influence of an inner vow, you are unteachable and unapproachable. You think you are the genius in a world of stooges.

When the heart is open, good humor flows and the ego's rigidity melts like snow in the sun.

Because there are so many kids, they run schools like factories, or dare I say, jails. You're put into lines and rows and moved when a bell rings. None of this is conducive to deep thinking or creativity. You start to go deep into a subject, and a bell rings to pull you out of it.

Don't confuse me with the facts—I've already made up my mind.

We have the finest officers in the world, but it seems like once they become generals it is a self-licking ice cream cone of who gets promoted and who gets approved to join that club. No one thinks outside the box.

Proper names are rigid designators.

Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.

The Dutchman was hard Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he was stone. His brain was eroded granite where the few ideas he had carved deep their ruts of opinion. There was no way for another idea to seep in, no place for imagination, no place for dreams, none for compassion or mercy or even fear.

He did not deviate from this routine by one jot, regardless of the weather.

La sostenía una voluntad de hierro, un gusto maníaco por la perfección y una increíble testarudez»

No aceptar ningún dogma sino hasta ver si es capaz de resistir un buen chiste

Unbendingness can also be monomania, it can ca be tyranny, and also it can be brittle, whereas what is flexible can also be humane, and strong enough to last.