Ellie Macleod
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Ellie Macleod
There are two kinds of causes, those that are intelligent, and those that, being moved by others, are, in turn, compelled to move others. The former are endowed with mind, and are the workers of things fair and good, while the latter produce chance effects without order or design.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Asterism (⁂): A fancy section divider
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when we find the convergence of where we belong and where we are encouraged or at least allowed to make a contribution, the magic happens.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Schiller answers a friend who complains of his lack of creativeness in the following words: “The reason for your complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intelligence imposes upon your imagination ... It does not seem beneficial, and it is harmful for the creative work of the mind, if the intelligence inspects too closely the id... See more
Cultivating a State of Mind Where New Ideas Are Born
Happy the Man, who, studying Nature's Laws, / Thro' known Effects can trace the secret Cause
Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Pablo Picasso: “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” James Baldwin: “Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.” Bob Dylan: “To be creative you’ve got to be unsociable and tight-assed.”
Cultivating a State of Mind Where New Ideas Are Born
Causation is always more difficult to prove than Correlation. When analyzing complex Systems with many variables and Interdependencies, it’s often extremely difficult to find true causality.