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[Ashton]

Background: The Semantics of the Information Elements

In progress. You must read the above link if you haven't already, else you are liable to be confused and/or post stupid replies. If you still have questions, ask.

These are some quotes compiled over time from people I found interesting in the process of typing them. Selected statements are those I felt demonstrated something that could give insight into "what a function is really like"—something to illustrate the way that individual experiences the world, what the associated thought and emotional processes of that function are in various positions of the psyche (1/2/5/6), how it shapes one's motivations and overall outlooks on life, etc.

None of these statements should be considered 'pure' expressions of isolated functions. Real world manifestations of any apparent function in someone will always be colored in part by the other valued functions present in their psyche. Its expected that some statements will be suggestive of 2 or even 3 valued functions simultaneously; I picked the one that seemed most primary to the statement.

I'll be deleting/adding more as I feel like it.

[Ashton]

Introverted Intuition (IFD)
Themes Present: Acceptance of uncertainty, unpredictability, irreducibility, and incompleteness as inherent to reality itself. Perceptions on the evolution of emergent processes and spontaneous order. Awareness of intangible phenomena and underlying intrinsic qualities. Portrayal of abstract ideas and concepts as dynamic and holistically interconnected. Attributions of homeorhesis and the unfolding destiny of things. Recognition of innate archetypal patterns and the nature of their existence across time.

“Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.” –Max Born (Ni-INTp)

“There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method'.” –Max Born (Ni-INTp)

“I believe there is no philosophical highroad in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.” –Max Born (Ni-INTp)

“It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, rest. We distinguish between living and dead matter; between moving bodies and bodies at rest. This is a primitive point of view. What seems dead, a stone or the proverbial door-nail, say, is actually forever in motion. We have merely become accustomed to judge by outward appearances; by the deceptive impressions we get through our senses.” –Max Born (Ni-INTp)

“The ultimate origin of the difficulty lies in the fact (or philosophical principle) that we are compelled to use the words of common language when we wish to describe a phenomenon, not by logical or mathematical analysis, but by a picture appealing to the imagination. Common language has grown by everyday experience and can never surpass these limits. Classical physics has restricted itself to the use of concepts of this kind; by analysing visible motions it has developed two ways of representing them by elementary processes; moving particles and waves. There is no other way of giving a pictorial description of motions—we have to apply it even in the region of atomic processes, where classical physics breaks down.” –Max Born (Ni-INTp)

“Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.” –Hayao Miyazaki (Ni-INTp)

“Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.” –Hayao Miyazaki (Ni-INTp)

“In nature, as an organism evolves it increases in complexity and it also becomes a more compact or miniaturized system. Similarly a city should function as a living system. Arcology, architecture and ecology as one integral process, is capable of demonstrating positive response to the many problems of urban civilization, population, pollution, energy and natural resource depletion, food scarcity and quality of life. Arcology recognizes the necessity of the radical reorganization of the sprawling urban landscape into dense, integrated, three-dimensional cities in order to support the complex activities that sustain human culture. The city is the necessary instrument for the evolution of humankind.” –Paolo Soleri (Ni-INTp)

“The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” –Paul Strand (Ni-INTp)

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” –Niels Bohr (Te-INTp)

“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress!” –Niels Bohr (Te-INTp)

“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.” –Niels Bohr (Te-INTp)

“For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory regarding the limited applicability of such customary idealizations, we must in fact turn to quite other branches of science, such as psychology, or even to that kind of epistemological problems with which already thinkers like Buddha and Lao Tsu have been confronted, when trying to harmonize our position as spectators and actors in the great drama of existence.” –Niels Bohr (Te-INTp)

/ “A spontaneous order is a system which has developed not through the central direction or patronage of one or a few individuals but through the unintended consequences of the decisions of myriad individuals each pursuing their own interests through voluntary exchange, cooperation, and trial and error. This process of spontaneous evolution is not restricted to explaining the growth of the economic order but can also account for the development of language, money, culture, law, social conventions and even morals and ethics. Although the spontaneous order develops through individuals pursuing their own interest, the individuals still behave by following commonly held rules rather than by acting in a random fashion, and these rules are themselves the product of evolution.” –Friedrich A. Hayek (Te-INTp)

/ “Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.” –Friedrich A. Hayek (Te-INTp)

“The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.” –David Hilbert (Te-INTp)

“No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.” –David Hilbert (Te-INTp)

“The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.” –David Hilbert (Te-INTp)

“Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.” –David Hilbert (Te-INTp)

/ “Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“A work of art is an attempt to experience the universe as a whole. One cannot analyze or dissect it into parts and comment on it without destroying its intrinsic character.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“It is a hopeless task to interpret a symphony, a painting, or a novel. The interpreter at best tries to tell us something about his reaction to the work… There are no words to describe the ineffable.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“In life everything is continually in flux.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“Understanding is always based on incomplete knowledge.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“One of the fundamental conditions of mans existence and action is the fact that he does not know what will happen in the future.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.” –Karl Popper (Te-INTp)

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” –Alfred Stieglitz (Te-INTp)

“You will find as you go through life that if you ask what a thing means, a picture, or music, or whatever, you may learn something about the people you ask, but as for learning about the thing you seek to know, you will have sense it in the end through your own experience, so that you had better save your energy and not go through the world asking what cannot be communicated in words. If the artist could describe in words what he does, then he never would have created it.” –Alfred Stieglitz (Te-INTp)

“Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.” –Frank Lloyd Wright (Te-INTp)

“Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity.” –Frank Lloyd Wright (Te-INTp)

“A modern building may reasonably be a plastic whole—an integral matter of three dimensions: a child of the imagination more free than of yore, owing nothing to ‘orders’ or ‘styles… Plastic treatments are always out of the thing, never something put on it. The quality of the third dimension is found in this sense of depth that enters into the thing to develop into an expression of its nature… In this architecture of the third dimension ‘plastic’ effects are usually produced from this sense of the within.” –Frank Lloyd Wright (Te-INTp)

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.” –T. E. Lawrence (Ni-ENTj)

“… but if you can get the right book at the right time you taste joys not only bodily, physical, but spiritual also, which pass one out above and beyond one's miserable self, as it were through huge air, following the light of another man's thought. And you can never be quite the old self again. You have forgotten a little bit: or rather pushed it out with a little of the inspiration of what is immortal in someone who has gone before you.” –T. E. Lawrence (Ni-ENTj)

“A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.” –George S. Patton (Ni-ENTj)

“Despite the oceans of ink and years of thought which have been devoted to the elucidation of war, it's secrets still remain shrouded in mystery. Indeed, it is due largely to the very volume of available information that the veil is so thick. War is an art and as such it is not susceptible to explanation by fixed formulae. Yet, from the earliest time there has been an unending effort to subject it's complex and emotional structure to dissection, to enunciate rules for it's waging, to make tangible it's intangibility. One might as well attempt to isolate the soul by the dissection of a cadaver as to seek the essence of war by the analysis of it's records.” –George S. Patton (Ni-ENTj)

“I believe that for a man to become a great soldier it is necessary for him to be so thoroughly conversant with all sorts of military possibilities that whenever an occasion arises, he has at hand, without effort on his part, a parallel. To attain this end, I believe that it is necessary for a man to begin to read military history in it's earliest and crudest form and to follow it down in natural sequence, permitting his mind to grow with his subject until he can grasp, without any effort, the most abstract question of the Science of War because he is already permeated with it's elements.” –George S. Patton (Ni-ENTj)

“Through the murk of fact and fable rises to our view this one truth; the history of war is the history of warriors; few in number but mighty in influence. Alexander, not Macedonia, conquered the world. Scipio, not Rome, destroyed Carthage. Marlborough, not the Allies, defeated France. Cromwell, not the Roundheads, dethroned Charles.” –George S. Patton (Ni-ENTj)

“I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar—perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road… I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the middle ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be.” –George S. Patton (Ni-ENTj)

“We promised the Europeans freedom. It would be worse than dishonorable not to see they have it. This might mean war with the Russians, but what of it? They have no Air Force anymore, their gasoline and ammunition supplies are low. I've seen their miserable supply trains; mostly wagons draw by beaten up old horses or oxen. I'll say this; the Third Army alone with very little help and with damned few casualties, could lick what is left of the Russians in six weeks. You mark my words. Don't ever forget them. Someday we will have to fight them and it will take six years and cost us six million lives.” –George S. Patton (Ni-ENTj)

“We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.” –Alan Watts (Te-ENTj)

“I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.” –Edward Hopper (Te-ENTj)

“I believe strongly in everyone's right to defend themselves by every means necessary… you are affected as a writer and a person by the culture and spirit of the times. I was tuned into it then, I'm tuned into it now. None of us are immune to the spirit of the age. It affects us whether we know it or whether we like it or not.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“I see pictures of the '50s, the '60s and the 70s and I see there was a difference. But I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change. But after you've been around awhile, they both seem unnatural.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“It seems like we're going in a straight line, but then you start seeing things that you've seen before. Haven't you experienced that? It seems we're going around in circles.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around—the music and the ideas.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

/ “Nothing is less real than realism… Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.” –Georgia O'Keeffe (Se-ISFj)

“There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix; a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing… And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get…” –Hunter S. Thompson (Se-ISFj)

“There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning… And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave… So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” –Hunter S. Thompson (Se-ISFj)

“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of the rat race is not yet final.” –Hunter S. Thompson (Se-ISFj)

“It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.” –Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Fi-ISFj)

“I'm for mystery, not interpretive answers… The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.” –Ken Kesey (Fi-ESFp)

“I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control.” –Ken Kesey (Fi-ESFp)

“My introduction to spirituality was through my grandmother and she's always been a very calm, peaceful, centered woman that was something that I admired and aspired to. I've created my own concept that differed from my grandmother's but it's a concept of the basic elements of treating people nice and the metaphysics of karma; if you do something good then something good will happen to you. If you do something bad, probably something bad is gonna happen. There's certain rules of the universe that intuitively I always felt really in tune with.” –Will Smith (Fi-ESFp)

[Ashton]

[indent]Observed Themes of Introverted Feeling: Subjective evaluations of others' essential character and individual traits. Qualitatively detailed descriptions of one's own personal feelings and emotional states. Deprecation of applying externally based 'rules' or 'laws' as standards for human behavior and ethical conduct. Still need to think of how to describe this more—some ego should help.[/indent]
“But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.” –Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Fi-ISFj)

“A concept is stronger than a fact.” –Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Fi-ISFj)

“Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.” –Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Fi-ISFj)

“Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.” –Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Fi-ISFj)

“And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.” –Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Fi-ISFj)

/ “That ethereal twilight light, you know. It's the sound of the street with the sunrays, the sun shining down at a particular time, on a particular type of building. A particular type of people walking on a particular type of street. It's an outdoor sound that drifts even into open windows that you can hear. The sound of bells and distant railroad trains and arguments in apartment buildings and the clinking of silverware and knives and forks and beating with leather straps. It's all—it's all there. Just lack of a jackhammer, you know.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

/ “Some things just come to me in dreams. But I can write a bunch of stuff down after you leave… about, say, the way you are dressed. I look at people as ideas. I don't look at them as people. I'm talking about general observation. Whoever I see, I look at them as an idea—what this person represents. That's the way I see life. I see life as a utilitarian thing. Then you strip things away until you get to the core of what's Important… in the larger scheme of things, the government is irrelevant. Everybody, everything can be bought and sold.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“To live outside the law, you must be honest.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“Morality has nothing in common with politics.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“[about Woody Guthrie] His influence on me was never in inflection or in voice. What drew me to was that hearing his voice, I could tell he was very lonesome, very alone and very lost in his time. That`s why I dug him.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“People can learn everything about me through my songs, if they know where to look.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“I really was never any more than what I was—a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze. Now it had blown up in my face and was hanging over me. I wasn't a preacher performing miracles. It would have driven anybody mad.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere… set out to find… this home that I’d left a while back and couldn’t remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn’t really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so, I’m on my way home, you know?” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“It’s not a character like in a book or a movie. He’s not a bus driver. He doesn’t drive a forklift. He’s not a serial killer. It’s me who’s singing that, plain and simple. We shouldn’t confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, My character this, and my character that. Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don’t have to explain it to me.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

/ “Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or a tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or a tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they say something. For me that is the very basis of painting. The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint.” –Georgia O'Keeffe (Se-ISFj)

“I feel that a real living form is the natural result of the individual's effort to create the living thing out of the adventure of his spirit into the unknown—where it has experienced something, felt something it has not understood, and from that experience comes the desire to make the unknown known. By unknown I mean the thing that means so much to the person that he wants to put it down—to clarify something he feels but does not clearly understand. I some way feel that everyone is born with it clear, but that with most of humanity it becomes blasted, one way or another…” –Georgia O'Keeffe (Se-ISFj)

/ “I was an outsider. My color and form were not acceptable. It had nothing to do with Cezanne or anyone else. I didn't understand what they were talking about… Years later when I finally got to Ceaznne's Mont Sainte-Victoire, I remember sitting there, thinking how could they attach all those analytical remarks to anything he did with that mountain? All those words pilled up on top of that poor little mountain seemed too much.” –Georgia O'Keeffe (Se-ISFj)

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing—and keeping the unknown always beyond you. Catching, crystallizing your simpler clearer vision of life—only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead—that you must always keep working to your grasp.” –Georgia O'Keeffe (Se-ISFj)

/ “I had things in my head that were not like what anyone has taught me—shapes and ideas so near to me—so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew—to strip away what I had been taught—and to accept as true my own thinking…” –Georgia O'Keeffe (Se-ISFj)

“I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at—not copy it.” –Georgia O'Keeffe (Se-ISFj)

“I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.” –Georgia O'Keeffe (Se-ISFj)

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” –Hunter S. Thompson (Se-ISFj)

“Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism—which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful.” –Hunter S. Thompson (Se-ISFj)

“Nixon believed, as he said many times, that if the president of the United States does it, it can't be illegal. But Nixon never understood the much higher and meaner truth of Bob Dylan's warning that To live outside the law you must be honest.” –Hunter S. Thompson (Se-ISFj)

“A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit—no matter how often he's reminded of it—that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley… Very few toads in this world are Prince Charmings in disguise. Most are simply toads… and they are going to stay that way… Toads don't make laws or change any basic structures, but one or two rooty insights can work powerful changes in the way they get through life. A toad who believes he got a raw deal before he even knew who was dealing will usually be sympathetic to the mean, vindictive ignorance that colors the Hell's Angels' view of humanity. There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.” –Hunter S. Thompson (Se-ISFj)

“But speaking of rules, you've been arrested dozens of times in your life. Specific incidents aside, what's common to these run-ins? Where do you stand vis-a-vis the law?Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I don't. How I stand vis-a-vis the law at any given moment depends on the law. The law can change from state to state, from nation to nation, from city to city. I guess I have to go by a higher law. How's that? Yeah, I consider myself a road man for the lords of karma.” –Hunter S. Thompson (Se-ISFj)

“Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.” –Hunter S. Thompson (Se-ISFj)

“Suddenly I was tired of Lotterman; he was a phony and he didn’t even know it. He was forever yapping about Freedom of the Press and Keeping the Paper Going, but if he’d had a million dollars and all the freedom in the world he’d still put out a worthless newspaper because he wasn’t smart enough to put out a good one. He was just another noisy little punk in the great legion of punks who march between the banners of bigger and better men. Freedom, Truth, Honor—you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.” –Hunter S. Thompson (Se-ISFj)

“There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.” –Diane Arbus (Fi-ESFp)

/ “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” –Diane Arbus (Fi-ESFp)

“We are such spendthrifts with our lives. The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.” –Paul Newman (Fi-ESFp)

“Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.” –Paul Newman (Fi-ESFp)

“People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.” –Paul Newman (Fi-ESFp)

“I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being… by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.” –Paul Newman (Fi-ESFp)

“It's like being animated by the love of a woman—the need to be worthy of her. That's the spot Jada holds in my life. I have to be better, stronger for her. It makes me excel.” –Will Smith (Fi-ESFp)

“I really believe that a man and a woman together, raising a family, is the purest form of happiness we can experience.” –Will Smith (Fi-ESFp)

“Jada and I have problems; everybody has problems. People ask, What happens if you made a mistake? Well, you should be a little more careful before you stand up in front of God and your family and friends and say, Till death do us part.” –Will Smith (Fi-ESFp)

“Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” –Will Smith (Fi-ESFp)

“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.” –Amelia Earhart (Fi-ESFp)

“The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair.” –Amelia Earhart (Fi-ESFp)

“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.” –Amelia Earhart (Fi-ESFp)

“It is not physical solitude that actually separates one from others; not physical isolation, but spiritual isolation. It is not the desert island nor the stony wilderness that cuts you from the people you love. It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. How often in a large city, shaking hands with my friends, I have felt the wilderness stretching between us. Both of us were wandering in arid wastes, having lost the springs that nourished us—or having found them dry. Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.” –Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Fi-ESFp)

/ “The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.” –Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Fi-ESFp)

“I didn't really cultivate a relationship with people in the business. Maybe I should've-or could've tried to. I feel like I'm playing the game now, and it hurts a little bit. But I realize if I want to work at all, I've got to.” –Mickey Rourke (Se-ESFp)

“Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.” –Niels Bohr (Te-INTp)

“A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.” –Friedrich A. Hayek (Te-INTp)

“Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.” –Friedrich A. Hayek (Te-INTp)

“It is not the willingness to kill on the part of our soldiers which most concerns me. That is an inherent part of war. It is our lack of respect for even the admirable characteristics of our enemy—for courage, for suffering, for death, for his willingness to die for his beliefs, for his companies and squadrons which go forth, one after another, to annihilation against our superior training and equipment. What is courage for us is fanaticism for him. We hold his examples of atrocity screamingly to the heavens while we cover up our own and condone them as just retribution for his acts.” –Charles A. Lindbergh (Te-INTp)

“To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.” –Charles A. Lindbergh (Te-INTp)

“Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

/ “If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

/ “A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism: is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

/ “Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.” –Frank Lloyd Wright (Te-INTp)

“I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.” –Frank Lloyd Wright (Te-INTp)

“It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.” –Max Born (Ni-INTp)

“Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.” –Hayao Miyazaki (Ni-INTp)

“Characters are pictured very simply in Moebius' drawings, yet they have a sort of atmosphere around them. And the characters themselves exhale all kinds of things, notably solitude and a great nobleness. For me, it is the greatest quality of Moebius' drawings.” –Hayao Miyazaki (Ni-INTp)

“When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you`re not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.” –Hayao Miyazaki (Ni-INTp)

“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.” –Paul Strand (Ni-INTp)

“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.” –Paul Strand (Ni-INTp)

“Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.” –Irvine Welsh (Ni-INTp)

“I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.” –Irvine Welsh (Ni-INTp)

“The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone propose equality as an ideal? Every year, scholars hold Conferences on Equality and call for greater equality, and no one challenges the basic tenet. But what justification can equality find in the nature of man? If each individual is unique, how else can he be made 'equal' to others than by destroying most of what is human in him and reducing human society to the mindless uniformity of the ant heap?” –Murray Rothbard (Te-ENTj)

“It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.” –Murray Rothbard (Te-ENTj)

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.” –Edward Hopper (Te-ENTj)

“Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.” –Claudia Black (Ni-ENTj)

“The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.” –Claudia Black (Ni-ENTj)

“Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. By day the hot sun fermented us; and we were dizzied by the beating wind. At night we were stained by dew, and shamed into pettiness by the innumerable silences of stars. We were a self-centered army without parade or gesture, devoted to freedom, the second of man's creeds, a purpose so ravenous that it devoured all our strength, a hope so transcendent that our earlier ambitions faded in its glare.” –T. E. Lawrence (Ni-ENTj)

“You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Day seems to dawn, sun to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am going to do puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever seen a leaf fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That's the feeling.” –T. E. Lawrence (Ni-ENTj)

“Since 1914… I wait for the natural to return; for newspapers to report news with care for accuracy and grammar; for schools to teach and for pupils to study; for faces to be sane and intelligent, and even humorous; for American artists and poets and writers to be exuberant and optimistic… it is all gone with the music of Vienna and the gaiety of San Francisco. But I still see everything against that background, and really I see nothing funny anywhere. The Beatnik beard and the mini skirt and the topless waitress, they ARE funny, I know they are funny but they only make me tired, I don't laugh.Letter to Roger MacBride (March 5, 1968) reflecting her impressions of the world of 1968, at the age of 81.” –Rose Wilder Lane (Ni-ENTj)

“I so much like real things—the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like—what shall I say?—the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.” –Rose Wilder Lane (Ni-ENTj)

“In the days of chivalry, the golden age of our profession, knights (officers) were noted as well for courtesy and being gentle benefactors of the weak and oppressed. From their acts of courtesy and benevolence was derived the word, now pronounced as one, gentle man. We, too, are officers and gentlemen. Let us strive to live up to the high ideals of our military forbears. Let us be gentle. That is, courteous and considerate for the rights of others. Let us be men. That is, fearless and untiring in doing our duty as we see it.” –George S. Patton (Ni-ENTj)

“There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.” –George S. Patton (Ni-ENTj)

“When a man gets married, he must be just as careful to keep his wife's love as he was to get it. It would be very sad for both of them if he said to himself, 'Now that I have you I need not worry about losing you'. Don't do that, ever!” –George S. Patton (Ni-ENTj)

“It is hard to answer intelligently the question, 'Why I want to be a soldier.' For my own satisfaction I have tried to give myself reasons but have never found any logical ones. I only feel that it is inside me. It is as natural for me to be a soldier as it is to breathe and would be as hard to give up all thought of being a soldier as it would be to stop breathing.” –George S. Patton (Ni-ENTj)

“Speaking in general, I find that moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men. Much of our trouble is directly attributable to the fear of 'they'.” –George S. Patton (Ni-ENTj)

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Extroverted Thinking (EOD)

[Ashton]

Extroverted Sensing (EOS)


“To explain the lure of speed you would have to explain human nature; but it is easier understood than explained. All men in all ages have beggared themselves for fast horses or camels or ships or cars or bikes or aeroplanes: all men have strained themselves dry to run or walk or swim faster. Speed is the second oldest animal craving in our nature, and our generation is fortunate in being able to indulge it more cheaply and generally than our ancestors. Evey natural man cultivates the speed that appeals to him. I have a motor-bike income.” –T. E. Lawrence (Ni-ENTj)

“Civilization has affected us. We abhor personal encounter. Many a man will risk his life, with an easy mind, in a burning house who would recoil from having his nose punched. We have been taught restraint from our emotions, to look upon anger as low, until many of us have never experienced the God sent ecstasy of unbridled wrath. We have never felt our eyes screw up, our temples throb, and have never had the red mist gather in our sight. But, we expect that a man shall, in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, divest himself of all restraint, of all caution, and hurl himself upon the enemy, a frenzied beast, lusting to probe his enemy's guts with three feet of steel or to shatter his brain with a bullet. Gentlemen, it cannot be done without mental practice. Therefore, you must school yourselves to savagery. You must imagine how it will feel when your sword hilt crashes into the breastbone of your enemy. You must picture the wild exaltation of the mounted charge when the lips are drawn back into a snarl and the voice cracks with a passion. At one time, you must be both a wise man and a fool.” –George S. Patton (Ni-ENTj)

“Democracy don't rule the world, you'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it—don't back down and don't give up—then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.” –Bob Dylan (Se-ISFj)

“A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower, the idea of flowers. Still, in a way nobody sees the flower, really. It is so small, we haven't time and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time… So, I said to myself—I'll paint what I see, what the flower is to me, but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it.” –Georgia O'Keeffe (Se-ISFj)

“White flower with the golden heart is something. I have to say about White—quite diffenrent from what White has been meaning to me. Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know that the flower is painted large to convey to you my experience of the flower—and what is my experience of the flower if it is not color… Color is one of the greatest things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting, it is my effort to create an equivalent with paint color for the world—life as I see it.” –Georgia O'Keeffe (Se-ISFj)

“But with the throttle screwed on, there is only the barest margin, and no room at all for mistakes. It has to be done right… and that's when the strange music starts, when you stretch your luck so far that fear becomes exhilaration and vibrates along your arms. You can barely see at a hundred; the tears blow back so fast that they vaporize before they get to your ears. The only sounds are the wind and a dull roar floating back from the mufflers. You watch the white line and try to lean with it… howling through a turn to the right, then to the left, and down the long hill to Pacifica… letting off now, watching for cops, but only until the next dark stretch and another few seconds on the edge… The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In. The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.” –Hunter S. Thompson (Se-ISFj)

“All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.” –Hunter S. Thompson (Se-ISFj)

“Anything that gets the adrenalin moving like a 440 volt blast in a copper bathtub is good for the reflexes and keeps the veins free of cholesterol… but too many adrenaline rushes in any given time span has the same effect on the nervous system as too many electro-shock treatments are said to have on the brain: after a while you start burning out the circuits. When a jackrabbit gets addicted to road-running, its only a matter of time before he gets smashed—and when a journalist turns into a politics junkie he will sooner or later start raving and babbling in print about things that only a person who has Been There can possibly understand.” –Hunter S. Thompson (Se-ISFj)

“This is just shit. It's happening. No blame. Happening and on the rise it would appear. What can we do to delay it? Probably zilch. To stop it? Likely less. But to survive it? Now that sounds more promising. There is evidence of bad shit having been survived before. Ancient Advice Left in cave by Wise French Caveman: When Bigbad Shit come, no run scream hide. Try paint picture of it on wall. Drum to it. Sing to it. Dance to it. This give you handle on it. So Twister is my try.” –Ken Kesey (Fi-ESFp)

“One of these days you're going to have a visitation. You're going to be walking down the street and across the street you're going to look and see God standing over there on the street corner motioning to you, saying, 'Come to me, come to me.' And you will know it's God, there will be no doubt in your mind—he has slitty little eyes like Buddha, and he's got a long nice beard and blood on his hands. He's got a big Charlton Heston jaw like Moses, he's stacked like Venus, and he has a great jeweled scimitar like Mohammed. And God will tell you to come to him and sing his praises. And he will promise that if you do, all of the muses that ever visited Shakespeare will fly in your ear and out of your mouth like golden pennies. It's the job of the writer in America to say, Fuck you God, fuck you and the Old Testament that you rode in on, fuck you. The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.” –Ken Kesey (Fi-ESFp)

“… I truly, honestly believe that if I chose to be the President of the United States, I could. You know, there's this wonderful delusional quality that I have that, I think, most successful people have to have. You have to believe in the impossible.” –Will Smith (Fi-ESFp)

“My father always said, No plan B. It distracts from plan A. Life is lived on the edge. You definitely gotta have the balls for it. We were raised with the concept of trying to save money, and I'm telling you, no, spend every dime on whatever your dream is. Don't have a dime in the bank. Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.” –Will Smith (Fi-ESFp)

“I don't even know what it is, but I just know that there is influence that I can have, and I want to find a direction.” –Will Smith (Fi-ESFp)

“I consider myself to be of basically average talent, right? What I have that other people do not have is a sick, obsessive, raw animal drive.” –Will Smith (Fi-ESFp)

“Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“Action is purposive conduct. It is not simply behavior, but behavior begot by judgments of value, aiming at a definite end and guided by ideas concerning the suitability or unsuitability of definite means… It is conscious behavior. It is choosing. It is volition; it is a display of the will.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“And my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now I could drink now and then, though never often enough. Drink was the only thing that kept a man from feeling forever stunned and useless. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought. God, they all had assholes and sexual organs and their mouths and their armpits. They shit and they chattered and they were dull as horse dung. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun. I would certainly never be able to be happy, to get married, I could never have children. Hell, I couldn't even get a job as a dishwasher.” –Charles Bukowski (Se-ESFp)

“One man with courage makes a majority.” –Andrew Jackson (Ni-ENTj)

“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” –Andrew Jackson (Ni-ENTj)

“I don't want to get any messages saying, I am holding my position. We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!” –George S. Patton (Ni-ENTj)

“In the unhampered market economy there are no privileges, no protection of vested interests, no barriers preventing anybody from striving after any prize.” –Ludwig von Mises (Te-INTp)

“One could sit still and look at life from the air; that was it. And I was conscious again of the fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes—speed, accessibility, and convenience—and will not change as they change. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. What motion there was took on a slow grace, like slow-motion pictures which catch the moment of outstretched beauty that one cannot see in life itself, so swiftly does it move. And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down to the still world below the choppy waves—it will always remain magic.” –Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Fi-ESFp)

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery—isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.” –Charles Bukowski (Se-ESFp)

“Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.” –Amelia Earhart (Fi-ESFp)

“Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.” –Amelia Earhart (Fi-ESFp)

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” –Amelia Earhart (Fi-ESFp)

“Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.” –Amelia Earhart (Fi-ESFp)

/ “Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.” –Amelia Earhart (Fi-ESFp)

“Men are alive on this earth, only because the imperative human desire is to attack the enemies of human life.” –Rose Wilder Lane (Ni-ENTj)

“We joined long wagon trains moving south; we met hundreds of wagons going north; the roads east and west were crawling lines of families traveling under canvas, looking for work, for another foothold somewhere on the land…. The country was ruined, the whole world was ruined; nothing like this had ever happened before. There was no hope, but everyone felt the courage of despair.” –Rose Wilder Lane (Ni-ENTj)

“Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that the words will be corroded too. It might be more appropriate, in fact, to liken their action to excessive stomach fluids that digest and gradually eat away the stomach itself. Many people will express disbelief that such a process could already be at work in a person's earliest years. But that, beyond doubt, is what happened to me personally, thereby laying the ground for two contradictory tendencies within myself. One was the determination to press ahead loyally with the corrosive function of words, and to make that my life's work. The other was the desire to encounter reality in some field where words should play no part at all.” –Yukio Mishima (Ni-ENTj)