Basic Building Blocks

Famous quotes containing the words basic, building and/or blocks:

    “Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wishes on the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand.”
    —Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)

    “Our civilization is characterized by the word “progress.” Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.”
    —Erich Fromm (1900–1980)