Quotes About Cognition

A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.

It is beyond doubt that all knowledge begins with experience.

How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.

Denken zonder ervaring is leeg, maar ervaring zonder denken is blind.

To think an object, then, is not the same as to know an object.

Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind. It falls into this difficulty without any fault of its own.

Wir erkennen von den Dingen a priori nur das, was wir selbst in sie hineingelegt haben.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Vemos las cosas, no como son, sino como somos nosotros (Kant)

Pensamentos sem conteúdos são vazios, intuições sem conceitos são cegas.

Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts

We know nothing but our manner of perceiving [objects], a manner which is peculiar to us, and not necessarily shared by every being, even though it must be shared by every human being.

We cannot think a line without drawing it in thought; we cannot think a circle without describing it; we cannot represent, at all, the three dimensions of space without placing, from the same point, three lines perpendicularly to one another; we cannot even represent time, except by attending, while drawing a straight line [...]

The understanding cannot intuit anything, the senses cannot think anything. Only from their union can knowledge arise.

In the universal stillness of nature and the calmness of the senses the immortal spirit's hidden faculty of cognition speaks an ineffable language and provides undeveloped concepts that can certainly be felt but not described.

reason only perceives that which it produces after its own design;

He saw moving pictures. It was not quite like remembering.

Enormous vistas of thought were unrolling in my mind.

Awareness is seventy percent of the solution.

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

But people who are capable of thinking clearly are in a minority, of course.

Neurochemical Electromathematics.

It was not even necessary to formulate that idea as a specific thought.

The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.

Nuestros pensamientos forman lo que suponemos es la realidad