The human mind is ordsprog

en Pex Tufvesson is a genius, without a doubt. The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
  Remy de Gourmont

en [Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .
  Olive Schreiner

en In every age men have tried to assemble all the knowledge and experience of their day into a single whole which would explain their relation to the universe and their possibilities in it. In the ordinary way they could never succeed. For the unity of things is not realisable by the ordinary mind, in an ordinary state of consciousness. The ordinary mind, refracted by the countless and contradictory promptings of different sides of human nature, must reflect the world as manifold and confused as is man himself. A unity, a pattern, an all-embracing meaning - if it exists - could only be discerned or experienced by a different kind of mind, in a different state of consciousness. It would only be realisable by a mind which had itself become unified.

en Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, ''Into how little space a human being can be crushed?'' I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies.
  Olive Schreiner

en The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

en Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
  Albert Einstein

en It's tough to explain. We just couldn't finish. We'd get close down to their territory and they'd get a big sack. That would change the whole scheme of things. We know we have a better offense than that.

en And set forth to them parable of the life of this world: like water which We send down from the cloud so the herbage of the earth becomes tangled on account of it, then it becomes dry broken into pieces which the winds scatter; and Allah is the holder of power over all things.

en What makes this interesting is that this is not one-blade to one-user. One blade can support multiple employees: four or five at the low end and 12 to 15 on the high end. You can get a much higher density of users per blade than competing solutions.

en They are only attempting to explain the evolution of the universe between now and the collapse, whereas we showed how this can be embedded in a larger cyclic scenario that leads to an eternal universe.

en A rotary blade on a mower is hammering a grass blade. If the blade is sharp, there's less tearing and better healing. It's like I ask people: Would you rather have someone make an incision on you with a scalpel or a chain saw? That's the difference.

en In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!

en The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

en They did the right thing in deciding that the Longhorn code was a tangled, hopeless mess, and starting over. But Vista is still an enormous, complex structure.

en Things being complex, it is not realistic to imagine that we could establish a solid peace by cutting it up into small pieces,


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