For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

“We have a very hard time “seeing” our cognitive activity because it is the medium in which we swim. The attempt to put our…

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it's the only way that God can…

— Paris Reidhead

What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has…

— Terence McKenna

All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This…

— Terence McKenna

Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely…

— Darell Hammond

The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms…

— Francisco Varela

Both human and animal emotions are slaves

— Mak_786

“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit and distort…

— Don Paterson

“The human animal needs meaning as well as food and air and sex and water. The sense that life is meaningless is at the…

— Robert Moss

The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life…

— Bertrand Russell

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define…

— Michael Pollan

Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable…

— George Horace Lorimer

“The [human] animal cannot cope with [dense confinement]; indeed, it is programmed to resist it. It must resist it, in the interest of survival.”

— John Livingston, from "Rogue Primate: An Investigation Into Human Domestication

There's a spiritual bond that connects all Souls: human, animal, and lower forms of life.

— Harold Klemp

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization,…

— Herbert Hoover