Quotes About Cognition

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.

This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it-or similar thoughts. It is therefore not a text-book. Its object would be attained if it afforded pleasure to one who read it with understanding.

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

Philosophy] must set limits to what can be thought; and, in doing so, to what cannot be thought. It must set limits to what cannot be thought by working outwards through what can be thought.

Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Los límites de mi lenguaje son los límites de mi mente. Sólo conozco aquello para lo que tengo palabras.

The limits of my language means the limit of my world

Los limites de mi lenguaje son los limites de mi mundo

Suppose that the colour struck you as brighter on one day than on another; would you sometimes say: I must be wrong, that colour is certainly the same as yesterday? This shews that we do not always resort to what memory tells us as the verdict of the highest court of appeal.

610. Kahvenin kokusunu betimle!- Neden olmuyor? Sözcüklerimiz mi yetersiz? Ne için yetersiz peki? - Ama böyle bir betimlemenin yine de olanakl? olmas? gerektiÄŸi düÅŸüncesi nereden geliyor? Böyle bir betimin eksikliÄŸini duydun mu hiç? Bu kokuyu betimlemeyi deneyip baÅŸaramad???n oldu mu?

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe

Gränserna för mitt språk innebär gränserna för min värld.

The limits of my language are the limits of my world.

Parlo, parlo, dico sciocchezze, faccio lo svagato; ma non è vero, sai? Perché osservo tutto io, invece; osservo tutto!

His eyes, blind to external reality but highly perceptive in the realm of the inner life, rose from the book to the ceiling and returned to the book.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

he seemed to be thinking at him.