Ways of Attending Quotes

“These are not different ways of thinking about the world: they are different ways of being in the world. And their difference is not symmetrical, but fundamentally asymmetrical.”
― Iain McGilchrist, Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

“since nothing is ever being repeated, nothing can ever be known.”
― Iain McGilchrist, Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

“although it is true that what it is we are attending to determines the type of attention we pay to it, it is also importantly true that the type of attention we pay determines what it is we see.”
― Iain McGilchrist, Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

“Knowledge, in its turn, would seem more “real” than what one might call wisdom, which would seem too nebulous, something never to be grasped. Knowledge that has come through experience, and the practical acquisition of embodied skill, would become suspect, appearing either a threat or simply incomprehensible. It would be replaced by tokens or representations – formal systems, to be evidenced by paper qualifications.”
― Iain McGilchrist, Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

“Language is not necessary for thinking, just for certain kinds of thinking. What was it for, then?”
― Iain McGilchrist, Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World