The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am. " He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.
A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories, and sometimes poems too, as being well-suited to the way we now live, with all of these broken-up bits of time. I hope they're right, but my sense is that our fiction reading has become, if anything, more cherished as a kind of escape from fragmentation.
From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.
Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.
Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation. . . . You have to break something down in order to have the parts synthesize.
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues
We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their problems, he is destined to become more so. He is driven to brevity, fragmentation, and superficiality in his tasks, yet he cannot easily delegate them because of the nature of his information.
You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.
I think conspiracy theories have gotten more and more close to the mainstream because what you've got is a fragmentation of the media, where the media becomes much more polarized today, left and right.
Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world
