Henryk Skolimowski Quotes

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There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the love of nature, the love of animals, the sense of social compassion, the sense of the spiritual dangers of affluence.

Henryk Skolimowski

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

Henryk Skolimowski

We are the proud inheritors and perpetuators of the scientific tradition. But perhaps also the slaves of certain modes of thinking; subjects to a conceptual tyranny which we glorify, thus being perfect slaves — slaves who enjoy their imprisonment.

Henryk Skolimowski

Theories, like old soldiers, fade away rather than being killed on the scientific battlefield.

Henryk Skolimowski

Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things.

Henryk Skolimowski

Henryk Skolimowski

Henryk Skolimowski

Born: May 4, 1930

Died: April 6, 2018 (aged 87)

Bio: Henryk Skolimowski was a Polish philosopher. He completed technical studies, musicology and philosophy in Warsaw. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Oxford University.

Known for:

The Participatory Mind (1994)
A sacred place to dwell (1993)
The theatre of the mind (1984)
Ecoyoga (1994)

Henryk Skolimowski on Wikipedia

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