From this time on, the universe is built...

Time

From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.

- Jean Piaget

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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

- William Blake

Other quotes by Jean Piaget

Actions

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

- Jean Piaget

Health Mother

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

- Jean Piaget

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them something too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

- Jean Piaget

Reality

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

- Jean Piaget

Actions

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

- Jean Piaget

Sense First

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.

- Jean Piaget

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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

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