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Life: b. 1930


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Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

source: - Vera John-Steiner (1997). “Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking”, p.29, Oxford University Press

Topics: Reality, Views, Language

Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human.

source: - Vera John-Steiner (1997). “Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking”, p.210, Oxford University Press

Topics: Thinking, Patterns, Weaving

To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.

source: - Vera John-Steiner (1997). “Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking”, p.9, Oxford University Press

Topics: Thinking, Ideas, Long


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