Fundamentals Quotes - Page 36

• For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other.

  Jean Piaget

  Religious, Mean, Animal

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Skills, Organization, Work Out

  "The Structuring of Organizations: A Synthesis of the Research". Book by Henry Mintzberg, 1979.

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• The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

  Leonard Cohen

  Moon, Two, Perfect

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.226, McClelland & Stewart

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• The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.

  Donald Barthelme

  Angel, Despair, Looks

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

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• The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is not going to have the wool pulled over his eyes. It speaks of a fundamental placement in relation to the work, that of a voyager in the world coming upon a strange object. The reader reconstitutes the work by his active participation, by approaching the object, tapping it, shaking it, holding it to his ear to hear the roaring within. It is characteristic of the object that it does not declare itself all at once, in a rush of pleasant naïveté.

  Donald Barthelme

  Eye, Men, Vets

  "After Joyce (1964)". "Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme". Book by Donald Barthelme, p. 4, 1997.

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• The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.

  Georges Bataille

  Laughter, Emotional, Analysis

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.33, SUNY Press

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• The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Moving, Emotional, Ideas

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser, p. 31, 1949.

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• The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Loss, Effectiveness, Musician

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.121, Penguin

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• Organizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.

  Fritjof Capra

  Order, Needs, Environment

  "The Hidden Connections". Book by Fritjof Capra, 2002.

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• Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.

  Maimonides

  Men, Law, Evil

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1088, Moses Maimonides

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• I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility, when their existence belongs to the future, does not change the nature of the possible in any way; that nature remains unchanged; and the knowledge of the realisation of one of several possibilities does not yet effect that realisation. This is likewise one of the fundamental principles of the Law of Moses concerning which there is no doubt nor any dispute.

  Maimonides

  Law, Doubt, Principles

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book Maimonides, Ch.20, 1190.

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• We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.

  J. William Fulbright

  Organization, Would Be, States

  "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House". Book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1965.

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• A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hopeful, Improvement, Consciousness

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 1: "Growing Up Outside'", p. 17, 1990.

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• After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Heart, Temples, Doe

  1995 Community of Faith.

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• The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body of men and women who understand the fundamental laws of nature and are skilled in the techniques of scientific research. We shall have rapid or slow advance on any scientific frontier depending on the number of highly qualified and trained scientists exploring it.

  Vannevar Bush

  Responsibility, Men, Law

  "Science - The Endless Frontier" by Vannevar Bush, United States, Office of Scientific Research and Development, July 1945.

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• What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time--just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I've learned to do that again.

  Bob Weir

  Dad, Kids, Watches

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• The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

  Alan Lightman

  Principles, Causes, Term

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• Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. I think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.

  Alan Lightman

  Journey, Thinking, Asking Questions

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• Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

  Garry Kasparov

  Jobs, Fighting, Russia

  "How Life Imitates Chess". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2007.

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• The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Military, War, Political

  "Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present" by William John Thomas Mitchel, (p. viii), 2011.

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• Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not.

  Kofi Annan

  Water, Humanity, Survival

  "Is the World Running Out of Water?". Awake! magazine, June 22, 2001.

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• Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.

  Hugo Chavez

  Rights, People, Water

  "Venezuela’s Chavez Closes World Social Forum with Call to Transcend Capitalism". Hugo Chavez's closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, venezuelanalysis.com. January 31, 2005.

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• Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that the local must be the basis of the general; that there can be a free federation only when there are free communities to federate; that the spirit of the latter is carried into the councils of the former, and a local tyranny may thus become an instrument for general enslavement.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Community, May, Littles

  Voltairine De Cleyre (1989). “Anarchism and American Traditions”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• When I was taught the Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu Kihon Gata, there were in this engendering of
  fundamental form the eight methods. *I was told that this kihon happo is the origin of all budo.
  So I say to you earnestly, you make this the basis and teach it to your students.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Eight, Taught, Students

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• Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases - the second law of thermodynamics - holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of nature'. It is not a little instructive that so similar a law [the fundamental theorem of natural selection] should hold the supreme position among the biological sciences.

  Ronald Fisher

  Thinking, Law, Littles

  "The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1930.

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