What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

- Jean Gebser

All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do not freely take upon o…

- Jean Gebser

In the end, everything is simple.

- Jean Gebser

Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast, has represented the side of…

- Jean Gebser

Integral reality is the world’s transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of …

- Jean Gebser

The supersession of dualism in biology begins to occur in this science at the moment when the ‘time’ factor is taken into consideration.

- Jean Gebser

We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt to struct…

- Jean Gebser

Only if we grant power to something can it have power over us. It becomes a serving and sustaining potency when we again are able to place it into th…

- Jean Gebser