Quotes About Cognition

By lack of understanding they remained sane.

Les meilleurs livres sont ceux qui racontent ce que l'on sait déjà.

Su memoria [de Winston] fallaba mucho, es decir, no estaba lo suficientemente controlada.

But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it. He did not feel it.

When these images clash—as in The Fascist octupus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot—it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.

Tudo acontece na mente. O que quer que aconteça em todas as mentes, acontece de fato.

Los mejores libros, comprendió, son los que te cuentan lo que ya sabías.

Only the disciplined mind can see reality, Winston. You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Wszystko dzieje si? w g?owie. A co dzieje si? w g?owach wszystkich, dzieje si? naprawd?.

Un hecho bien conocido puede resultar tan insoportable que sea dejado de lado y no se le permita formar parte de los procesos lógicos; o, por el contrario, puede formar parte de todos los cálculos y, a pesar de eso, no ser admitido jamás como un hecho, ni siquiera en la propia mente.

The best books are those that tell you what you know already

Baš ništa ne posjedujemo osim par kubi?nih centimetara unutar vlastite lubanje.

Ä°nsan, kendi belleÄŸi d???nda hiçbir kay?t olmay?nca en belirgin gerçeÄŸi bile nas?l kan?tlayabilirdi ki?

By lack of understanding they remained sane. They

I do know them each by heart because

Memory... is an internal rumor.

We consider speech to be the result of thought (we have a thought, then select a sentence with which to express it), but thought also results from speech (as we grope, in words, toward meaning, we discover what we think).

How could we have been otherwise? Or, being that way, have done otherwise? We were that way, at that time, and had been led to that place, not by any innate evil in ourselves, but by the state of our cognition and our experience up until that moment.

We were as we were" …"how could we have been otherwise? Or, being that way, have done otherwise? We were that way, at that time, and had been led to that place, not by any innate evil in ourselves, but by the state of our cognition and experience up until that moment

We were as we were! the bass lisper barked. How could we have been otherwise? Or, being that way, have done otherwise? We were that way, at that time , and had been led to that place, not by any innate evil in ourselves, but by the state of our cognition and our experience up until that moment .

It was only now, at this precise moment, that Maigret became fully aware of the situation. He literally saw himself, sitting comfortably in his armchair, his legs stretched towards the fire, warming his glass of armagnac in the hollow of his hand. He realized that it wasn't he who was talking, asking questions, but this short, thin, calm man, the same man who, only a few minutes earlier, had been dragging a dead body to the sea.

What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.

When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

There is a lushness to how my mind works.