6 Quotes by Jean Gebser


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    Integral reality is the world’s transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both.

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    The supersession of dualism in biology begins to occur in this science at the moment when the ‘time’ factor is taken into consideration.

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    What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

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    Only if we grant power to something can it have power over us. It becomes a serving and sustaining potency when we again are able to place it into the realm where it belongs, instead of submitting to it.

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    What is needed is care; a great deal of patience; and the laying aside of many preconceived opinions, wishful dreams, and the blind sway of demands.

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