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35c5537 The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless. utility wittgenstein order method Umberto Eco
f0b7228 There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way. humor wisdom method Margaret Atwood
3c980fa Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces. earth live nature way force method mold remake shatter style humankind break human-beings humans Robin Hobb
4a8febd "The method that is required is not one of correlation but of liberation. Even the term "method" must be reinterpreted and in fact wrenched out of its usual semantic field, for the emerging creativity in women is by no means a merely cerebral process. In order to understand the implications of this process it is necessary to grasp the fundamental fact that women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our power to name ourselves, the world or God. The old naming was not the product of dialogue- a fact inadvertently admitted in the genesis story of Adam's naming the animals and the women. Women are now realizing that the universal imposing of names by men has been false because partial. That is, inadequate words have been taken as adequate." men women religion naming method process sexism Mary Daly
0818bc9 Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything. Or he believes in one thing at a time. He believes a second thing only if it somehow follows from the first thing. He is nearsighted and methodical, avoiding wide horizons. If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity. science method Umberto Eco