“Pinker told us he wanted to have entered into the record Kahneman’s statements on the irrationality of much of human thought. I don't think of religious traditions primarily as irrational, I think of them primarily as imagination, which is what they are” https://www.edge.org/conversation/elaine_pagels-the-social-history-of-religion …
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“Accordingly, genius is the capacity to remain in a state of pure perception, to lose oneself in perception, to remove from the service of the will the knowledge which originally existed only for this service.” Schopenhauer
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"When a person works, he must have knowledge or he will make terrible mistakes. But at the same time, knowledge alone doesn’t do anything new. You must have instinct and somehow be conscious of making use of instinct." ~ Heisuke Hironaka
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