Adaptation is the transformation of an organism by incorporating the environment into its extended cognitive system.
Adaptation is inherent in man. There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
Adaptation is a necessary faculty of that scoundrel, man. He can grow used to everything.
Ambiguity is a loss of any sensitivity to the distinction between genuine understanding and superficial chatter.
Ambiguity is a form of inauthenticity (structured temporally by the present) characterized by the inability to tell what is idle talk or mere curiosity, and what is indeed deep.
Conversation is best with lulls — Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings.
15 concepts in this pillow book.