Rasa Quotes

There's a necessity for physical experience and a recourse to exemplary cases of bodily ascesis to understand and make understood a type of emptying of the mind, an emptying that is required if the mind is to think. This obviously has nothing to do with tabula rasa, with what Descartes (vainly) wanted to be a starting from scratch on the part of knowing thought. (Jean-François Lyotard)
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. View quote
Stanislav Grof
I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me. View quote
Thom Mayne
The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planetological theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin. View quote
David Grinspoon
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature. View quote
Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
Policies that assume that human nature is a tabula rasa (clean slate) should be reviewed and revised to reflect that man has an in-built genetic code for survival with no evidence for innate morality. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa. View quote
Richard Powers