“I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's already happened. That… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
You can't compare the effect of multimedia-tasking and the effect of playing action games. They have totally different effects on different aspects… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
“Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“Over the last three centuries, psychologists have been able to define three distinct parts of the human mind: thoughts, emotions, and motivations.… — Benjamin Smith Copy Share Image
We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a momentary illusion created by momentary neurochemical impulses. Contentment on the other hand, is not a momentary impulse, it is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The pure mystic wishes to approach his God only in the all-embracing love. The yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Our view of the mind not only shapes our view of ourselves; less obviously, it also shapes our view of that part… — Seán Ó Nualláin Copy Share Image
Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Take space. It has to be either finite or infinite, yet neither possibility sits well with our intuitions. When I try to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
“Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image