12 quotes so far ... what might be the top 4?
1.
The applied scientist must be adept at analysing a situation as a whole, of thinking at several different levels at once, recognizing clues, piecing together diverse bits of information and assessing the likely outcomes of various courses of action.
2.
We are contingent temporary flotsam on a sea of being.
3.
It is not that there are the starry heavens above and the moral law within, as Kant would have it; rather, the true basis of your virtuous existence is the fact that the starry heavens are within you, and you are within them.
4.
Logic merely defines how the world must be if we are to successfully apply certain techniques.
5.
... In the world of pre-modernity the peasants may have lived on the first floor of a building but the cattle and animals lived on the
ground floor, and metaphorically they saw themselves as part of a chain of being stretching from perhaps inorganic beings through
plants, animals, human beings to the enlightened ancestors to angels up to God or gods".
6.
... Let us have a look at social structure first, well, economic crisis so we have a fiscal financial crisis, it is arguable that what
needs to happen is money and the financial structures need to be re-embedded within what could be called the real economy of people working and producing goods and service that are valued by other people.
7.
If we look at ecology, another huge source of crisis, at the level of material transactions with nature, I think it is absolutely unarguable
that what we need is, from the point of view of the climate as a whole, less growth, that is degrowth, and degrowth coupled with a
radical redistribution of income."
8.
...Then there is the stratification of the embodied personality. What we would be seeking here is new levels and forms of integration that place the ground state in the centre of the self and allow us to work around and gradually get rid of all the non ground state things, and so become more efficient agents for our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of all'
9.
Dialectic is the yearning for
freedom and the transformative negation of constraints on it.
10.
Reality is a potentially infinite totality, of which we know something but not how much.
11.
Love is the totalising, binding, unifying, healing force in the universe. And, just in virtue of there being a 'universe' (oneverse),
it is the most powerful force in being. Fear, and all the other negative emotions, depend on the absence of love. Thus the negative
emotions, such as greed and anger, all depend on self-alienation, an alienation of self from Self, of personality from the alethic truth.
12.
Transcendence is alive, as experience, and present everywhere.
