In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly...
When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive.
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rare...
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
Think sideways!
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process...
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond im...
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
En la búsqueda lógica se aspira al mejor enfoque posible, mientras que en la búsqueda lateral se aspira al mayor número posible de enfoques, prescindiendo de su valor práctico real. La búsqueda lógica...
Почти всичко може да бъде допълнително опростено.
It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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