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“human beings have a strong dramatic instinct toward binary thinking, a basic urge to divide things into two distinct groups, with nothing but an empty gap in between. We love to dichotomize. Good versus bad. Heroes versus villains. My country versus the rest. Dividing the world into two distinct sides is simple and intuitive, and also dramatic because it implies conflict, and we do it without thinking, all the time.”
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World â€� and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World â€� and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
“But dividing the mind into “biologicalâ€� and “psychologicalâ€� is as fallacious as classifying light as a particle or a wave. The natural world makes no promise to align itself with preconceptions that humans find parsimonious or convenient.”
― A General Theory of Love
― A General Theory of Love

“The people in their overwhelming majority are so feminine by nature and attitude that sober reasoning determines their thoughts and actions far less than emotion and feeling.
And this sentiment is not complicated, but very simple and all of a piece. It does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way, never partially, or that kind of thing.”
― The Mass Psychology of Fascism
And this sentiment is not complicated, but very simple and all of a piece. It does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way, never partially, or that kind of thing.”
― The Mass Psychology of Fascism

“It’s the binary of normative/transgressive that’s unsustainable, along with the demand that anyone live a life that’s all one thing.”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts

“Roosevelt loved the subtleties of human relations...He was sensitive to nuances in a way that Harry Truman never was and never would be. Truman, with his rural Missouri background, and partly too, because of the limits of his education, was inclined to see things in far simpler terms, as right or wrong, wise or foolish. He dealt little in abstractions.”
― Truman
― Truman

“The earth is round and flat at the same time. This is obvious. That it is round appears indisputable; that it is flat is our common experience, also indisputable. The globe does not supersede the map; the map does not distort the globe.”
― Sexing the Cherry
― Sexing the Cherry

“Binary paths belong in bygone past, all things civilized are non-binary.”
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“The emotional mind likewise transcends the facile and appealing dualism separating its psychological and biological aspects. Physical mechanisms produce one’s experience of the world. Experience, in turn, remodels the neurons whose chemoelectric messages create consciousness. Selecting one strand of that eternal braid and assigning it primacy is the height of capriciousness.”
― A General Theory of Love
― A General Theory of Love

“Binary approach is an obsolete school of thought in the process of structuring human perception towards reality. True nature of the reality fits better with spectrum approach.”
― Master of Stupidity
― Master of Stupidity
“We don't usually see that there's a third possible logical term equal to yes and no, which is capable of explaining our understanding in an unrecognized direction. We don't even have a term for it, so I'll have to use the Japanese "Mu." Mu means no thing, like quality, it points outside the process of dualistic discrimination. Mu simply says, no class, not one, not zero, not yes, not no. It states that the context of the question is such that a yes or no answer is an error and should not be given. Un-ask the question is what it says. Mu becomes appropriate when the context of the question becomes too small for the truth of the answer.”
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“I have looked many men in the eye. Some I deemed villains, liars, and beasts. Others, more trustworthy than clergy. A binary discussion, assigning simply black or white, is a stunted reading of these individuals, the death of, "Why?" The color black is an unintelligible void and white, an incoherent scream, each lacking the constructive facts shrouded in the other. Only through shades of each is there an understanding of reality, any conception of an image. And so, I've sought them, these violent shades of gray.
From JR Hazard, introduction to Of Empire and Illusion”
― Of Empire and Illusion: Or the Manuscript as it Sat August 27, 1987
From JR Hazard, introduction to Of Empire and Illusion”
― Of Empire and Illusion: Or the Manuscript as it Sat August 27, 1987

“When we are trapped in fear we see everything in binary terms: us or them, fight or flight.”
― Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
― Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary

“Such a split--a deadly one, as it turns out, for Native Americans--was reinforced through what is called binary thinking. In binary thinking, Puritans and others operating from that worldview judged everything to be either right or wrong, with no middle ground... This type of absolutism makes it difficult for Western thinkers to hold two seemingly incompatible things in tension without having to find resolution.”
― Journey to Eloheh: How Indigenous Values Lead Us to Harmony and Well-Being
― Journey to Eloheh: How Indigenous Values Lead Us to Harmony and Well-Being

“If you think a problem has only two solutions, you’re either right... or super wrong. Smart play is to always have more options.”
― Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don't Get Hungry
― Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don't Get Hungry
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