Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 24 | They do not learn as we do. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 21 | With View more quotes about respect">respect to the rather complex syllabary, I originally supposed that it had never been simplified because the Priest-King, with his intelligence, would absorb the four hundred and eleven characters of his syllabary more rapidly than would a human child his alphabet of less than thirty letters, and thus that the difference to him between more than four hundred signs and less than thirty would be negligible. |
| 13 | 22 | As far as it goes this was not bad guesswork on my part, but deeper reasons underlay the matter. |
| 13 | 23 | First, I did not know then how Priest-Kings learned. |
| 13 | 24 | They do not learn as we do. |
| 13 | 25 | Second, they tend in many matters to have a penchant for complexity, regarding it as more elegant than simplicity. |
| 13 | 26 | One practical result of this seems to be that they have never been tempted to oversimplify physical reality, biological processes or the operations of a functioning mind. |
| 13 | 27 | It would never occur to them that nature is ultimately simple, and if they found it so they would be rather disappointed. |
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With respect to the rather complex syllabary, I originally supposed that it had never been simplified because the Priest-King, with his intelligence, would absorb the four hundred and eleven characters of his syllabary more rapidly than would a human child his alphabet of less than thirty letters, and thus that the difference to him between more than four hundred signs and less than thirty would be negligible.
As far as it goes this was not bad guesswork on my part, but deeper reasons underlay the matter.
First, I did not know then how Priest-Kings learned.
They do not learn as we do.
Second, they tend in many matters to have a penchant for complexity, regarding it as more elegant than simplicity.
One practical result of this seems to be that they have never been tempted to oversimplify physical reality, biological processes or the operations of a functioning mind.
It would never occur to them that nature is ultimately simple, and if they found it so they would be rather disappointed.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)