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Optimal Value

“Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.” Gregory Bateson ...Read More

Absolute truths

“Wherever the psyche does announce absolute truths – such as, for example, “God is motion,” or ” God is One “-it necessarily falls into one or the other of its own antitheses. For the two statements might equally well be: “God is rest,” or ...Read More

Ceci n’est pas une pipe

The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images, 1928–29, sometimes translated as The Treason of Images) is a painting by the Belgian René Magritte, painted when Magritte was 30 years old. The picture shows a pipe. Below it, Magritte painted, “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” , French for ...Read More