Cognition Quotes - Page 2

• In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Distance, Heart, Reality

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• Cognition reigns but does not rule.

  Paul Valery

  Doe, Reign

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• When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Separation, Awareness, States

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• The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.

  Josef Pieper

  Mean, Happy Life, Intuition

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• Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean, roughly, the view that many fundamentally different kinds of psychological mechanisms must be postulated in order to explain the facts of mental life. Faculty psychology takes seriously the apparent heterogeneity of the mental and is impressed by such prima facie differences as between, say, sensation and perception, volition and cognition, learning and remembering, or language and thought.

  Jerry Fodor

  Mean, Differences, Views

  "Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, 1983.

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• A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Feelings, Tools

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.34, Penguin

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• if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Environment, Rapids, Ifs

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• There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Perception, Approval, Dashing

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• Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Thinking, Function

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• The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Limits, Language

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• Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by consciousness differentiating into cognition, moods, emotions, perceptions, behavior, speech, social interactions, environment, interaction with the forces of nature, and biology. As consciousness evolves, these different aspects of consciousness also change.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Perception, Speech

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• We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.

  Eric Jensen

  Exercise, Cells, Brain

  Eric Jensen (2005). “Teaching with the Brain in Mind”, p.3, ASCD

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• Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.

  Novalis

  Philosophy, Heart, Mean

  "Novalis: Fichte Studies". Book by Novalis, edited by Jane Kneller, §556, 2003.

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• Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge

  Nathaniel Branden

  Commitment, Judgement, Feelings

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1965). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”

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• The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Memories, Giving, Childhood

  Herbert Marcuse (2015). “Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.

  Laird Barron

  Fear, Temptation, Curiosity

  Laird Barron (2007). “The Imago Sequence”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

  Philip K. Dick

  Effort, World, Morality

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.260, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We are all already looking directly at Spirit, we just don't recognize it. We have all the necessary cognition, but not the recognition.

  Ken Wilber

  Spirit, Recognition, Right Now

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.366, Shambhala Publications

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• All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Truth, Real, Ideas

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• Products were once designed for the functions they performed. But when all companies can make products that perform their functions equally well, the distinctive advantage goes to those who provide pleasure and enjoyment while maintaining the power. If functions are equated with cognition, pleasure is equated with emotion; today we want products that appeal to both cognition and emotion.

  Donald A. Norman

  Want, Today, Maintaining

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• Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.

  William of Ockham

  Judging, Imperfection, Perception

  William (of Ockham), Philotheus Boehner (1990). “Philosophical Writings: A Selection”, p.115, Hackett Publishing

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• There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.

  Jerome Bruner

  Memories, Men, Class

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sheep, Democracy, Majority

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• You know, whether it be humans or animals. So even humans - before we can speak or we can understand a baby's cognition - they're already showing us signs that they want choice.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Baby, Animal, Choices

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• 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

  Character, Law, Choices

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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