Quote

The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.

David Bohm

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Bohm
Age: 74 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 20
Died: 1992
Died: October 27
Nuclear Physicist
Philosopher
Physicist
University Teacher
Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania
David Joseph Bohm
Also
Developed
Unbroken
Even
Separate
Organism
Way
Boundaries
Underlying
Clearly
Wholeness
Parts
Abstraction
Notion
Organisms
Civilization
Strongly
Boundary
Though
Separation
Emphasize

More quotes by David Bohm

Image
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.
David Bohm
Image
...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.
David Bohm
Image
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.
David Bohm
Image
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.
David Bohm
Image
Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.
David Bohm
Image
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.
David Bohm
Image
Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?
David Bohm
Image
We can't simply take the way things seem and just work on that, because that would be another kind of mistake thought makes-taking the surface and calling it the reality.
David Bohm
Image
Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.
David Bohm
Image
A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
David Bohm
Image
From the point of view of the species, death is part of this whole process. You could say that species have evolved in such a way that individual members last a certain time. Perhaps a certain kind of species would be better able to survive if the individuals didn't last too long. Other kinds could last longer.
David Bohm
Image
Thus, in a dialogue each person does not attempt to make common certain ideas or items of information that are already known to him. Rather, it can be said that collectively they are making something in common
David Bohm
Image
Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.
David Bohm
Image
We have the idea that after we have been thinking something, it just evaporates. But thinking doesn't disappear. It goes somehow into the brain and leaves something-a trace-which becomes thought. And thought then acts automatically.
David Bohm
Image
The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion).
David Bohm
Image
One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.
David Bohm
Image
In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.
David Bohm
Image
If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That's still incoherence. It's not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.
David Bohm
Image
We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive.
David Bohm
Image
But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.
David Bohm