Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge. — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
“We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“A popular myth is that learning is largely a matter of motivation. Increasingly, the key to effective learning in the information era… — Kathryn Alesandrini Copy Share Image
Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
“English: "Human rethinking is a continuation of evolutionary rethinking." Česky: „Lidské přemýšlení je pokračováním přemýšlení evoluce.” — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
“Snipers learn to silence the chaos of their thoughts until only the target and the shot exist. In that silence lies mastery,… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
Products were once designed for the functions they performed. But when all companies can make products that perform their functions equally well,… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Most of her contemporaries simply don't understand why she has all these paper books, or indeed all this paper. It's a hands-on… — Carla Speed McNeil Copy Share Image
All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we… — Dennis McKenna Copy Share Image
“But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the shadow of the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The issue Fodor writes about is central to the psychology of perception, cognition, and action. It is the central issue for anyone… — Alvin Liberman Copy Share Image
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
“In a sense it has been my way to transcendental experience: to the discovery that matter metaphorically speaking, is the creation of… — Humberto R. Maturana Copy Share Image
The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can… — Ernest Gellner 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
“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
“Also, even if technocrats provide reasonable estimates of a risk, which itself is an iffy enterprise, they cannot dictate what level of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“I get a prompt about using my Dissociative Cognition System. It takes considerable effort to make even that decision, but I manage… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“I understand the mechanism of my own thinking. I know precisely how I know, and my understanding is recursive. I understand the… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“without the mind the body is not capable of delivering anything beyond an average performance.” — David Amerland Copy Share Image
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
You know, whether it be humans or animals. So even humans - before we can speak or we can understand a baby's… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
“Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image