531The truth knocks on the door and you say "Go away. I'm looking for the truth." and so it goes away. Puzzling.
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532A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form itself. A romantic understanding sees it primarily in terms of immediate appearance.
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533When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. That is fairly well understood, at least in the arts. Mark Twain's experience comes to mind, in which, after he had mastered the analytic knowledge needed to pilot the Mississippi River, he discovered that the rive had lost its beauty. Something is always killed. But what is less noted in the arts--something is always created, too. And instead of dwelling on what is killed it's important to also see what's created and to see the process as a kind of death-birth continuity that is neither good or bad, but just is.
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534Church of Reason
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535You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. The know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogma or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
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536It's an old split. Like the one between Art and Art History. One does it and the other talks about how it's done and the talk about how it's done never seems to match how one does it.
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537All right, we know what quality is, how do we get it.
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...Unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth, and so on.
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538Horns of the dilemma, and ways to tackle them.
Left horn
Right horn
Between the horns--deny
Throw sand in the bull's eyes--Attack
Sing the bull to sleep--apply to ego
Refuse to enter the arena--Reject.
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539Diagram. Quality is made up of two constituent parts: Romantic quality or Preintellectual Reality, and Classical Quality or Intellectual reality. Classical quality is made up of two constituent parts: Subjective reality, or mind; and objective reality, or matter.
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540Poincare then hypothesized that this selection is made by what he called the "subliminal self," an entity that corresponds exactly with what Phaedrus called preintellectual awareness. The subliminal self Poincare said, looks at a large number of solutions to a problem, but only the interesting ones break into the domain of consciousness. Mathematical solutions are selected by the subliminal self on the basis of "Mathematical beauty," of the harmony of numbers and forms, of geometric elegance.
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541Peace of mind isn't at all superficial to technical work. It's the whole thing. That which produces it is good work and that which destroys it is bad work. The specs, the measuring instruments, the quality control, the final check-out, these are all means toward the end of satisfying the peace of mind of those responsible for the work.
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542Gumption
The Greeks called it Enthousiasmos, the root of "enthusiasm" which literally means "filled with Theos" or God, or Quality.
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543Japanese Mu - No Thing.
Null set
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544What is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good--need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
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