Uncommon Wisdom Quotes

“A person functioning exclusively in the Cartesian mode may be free from manifest assumptions but cannot be considered mentally healthy. Such individuals typically lead ego-centered, competitive, goal-oriented lives. They tend to be unable to derive satisfaction from ordinary activities in everyday life and can become alienated from their inner world. For people whose existence is dominated by this mode of experience no level of wealth, power, or fame will bring genuine satisfaction. They become infused with a sense of meaninglessness, futility, and even absurdity that no amount of external success can dispel.”
― Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

“Science is of no value unless it is accompanied by social concern.”
― Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

“We have become so obsessed with rational knowledge, objectivity, and quantification that we are very insecure in dealing with human values and human experience.

- Margaret M. Lock”
― Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

“The original sense of the word 'therapist' in its Greek form therapuetes, was that of an attendant. A therapist, Laing maintained, should therefore be a specialist in attentiveness and awareness.”
― Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

“For those of us who identify with the movements of the sixties this period represents not so much a decade as a state of consciousness, characterized by the transpersonal expansion, the questioning of authority, a sense of empowerment, and the experience of sensuous beauty and community. This state of consciousness reached well into the seventies. In fact, one could say that the sixties came to an end only in December 1980 with the shot that killed John Lennon.”
― Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People