This has suggested to some that the very structure of…

“I didn’t say it was a rational fear. But the worst fears aren’t, are they?”

— Kelley Armstrong

“In short, one may say anything about the history of the world—anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Art is more than a sum of cultural signs: It is a language both direct and associative, and has a grammar and syntax like…

— David Salle

Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another.…

— Vannevar Bush

“This complex constellation of responses occurred quickly, automatically, and effortlessly. You did not will it and you could not stop it. It was an…

— Daniel Kahneman

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“I do suffer from an associative malady that permits me to justify acquiring almost every book.”

— Henry Hitchens (Browse

The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.

— Cargill Gilston Knott

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

— Steven Pinker

Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of light. It…

— Anthony Standen

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

— Edward Said

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so…

— Annie Besant

The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley