Schemas Quotes

• In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

  Angela Carter

  Relationship, Women, Propose

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

  Thomas Mann

  Foundation, Flow, Timeless

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings”, p.290, A&C Black

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• Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule.

  Jean Piaget

  Self, Games, Common

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and this is where rules come into existence as soon as a balance is established between adaptation and assimilation, the course of conduct adopted becomes crystallized and ritualized. New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Balance, Looks

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• The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

  Jean Piaget

  Gaps, Novelty, Problem

  Jean Piaget (2013). “The Construction Of Reality In The Child”, p.354, Routledge

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• Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Animal, Metaphor

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Book, Long, Library

  "Quantitative measurement and dynamic library service" by Ching-chih Chen, (p. 52), 1980.

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• Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

  Hermann Weyl

  Math, Thinking, Essence

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• My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little 'Meditations' (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art.

  Alexej von Jawlensky

  Spiritual, Art, Men

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• We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments?

  Gar Alperovitz

  Real, People, Vision

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Technology, Silence, Humanity

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• This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such a dead Being, but, on the contrary, is Life; but it can only be a Power, since only a Power is the true formal picture or Schema of Life. And indeed it can only be the Power of realising that which is contained in itself a Schema.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Mean, Formal, Realising

  "Outline of the Doctrine of Knowledge" by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, III, 1810.

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• It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.

  Thomas Nagel

  Together, Example, Alternatives

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