Conception Quote by William James

“Furthermore, we exist in a psychologically fragmented state, a state of continuous inner conflicts among the parts of ourselves. We have lost the principle…

— Kabir Helminski

“However, current research in animal cognition, and on protolanguage, protomorality, ritual, and levels of consciousness, has shown that we may not be as unique…

— J. Wentzel van Huyssteen

Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think

— Jill Bolte Taylor

The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them…

— Eckhart Tolle

“thus animals without symbolic language may lack the ability humans have to deliberately think about the past and imagine the future.”

— David Christian

“I often think a person’s consciousness can grow more from gaining an insight into animals’ true essence than animals’ consciousness can grow from spending…

— Gordon Smith

“Human beings, on the other hand, are symbolic creatures. Inside their heads they break down the outside world into a mass of mental symbols,…

— Ian Tattersall

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

— Chuck Jones

“It’s our current exclusivity, not that multi-species past, that is peculiar – and perhaps incriminating. As we will shortly see, we Sapiens have good…

— Yuval Noah Harari

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

— Graham Greene

What even the mind can conceive and the mind can archive.

— Abbas

“The brain does much more than recollect. It compares, synthesizes, analyzes, generates abstractions. We must figure out much more than our genes can know.…

— Carl Sagan