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Quotes About Representations

Demons, chaos, dragons - all of them are different incarnations and representations of our idea of death in 'Dark Souls.'
~ Hidetaka Miyazaki
la pintura de costumbres del presente. El pasado es interesante no solo por la belleza que supieron extraer de él los artistas para quienes era presente, sino además por pasado, por su valor histórico. Lo mismo ocurre con el presente. El placer que obtenemos en las representaciones del presente depende no solo de la belleza que este pueda revestir, sino además de su cualidad esencial de presente.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Rights have to be asserted. Animals cannot make such assertions. We have to make representations to ourselves on their behalf.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The soul follows its own laws, and the body its own likewise, and they accord by virtue of the harmony pre-established among all substances, since they are all representations of one and the same universe.
~ leibniz gottfried wilhelm ii
What the recent physiology of the senses has shown by the way of experience is what Kant had tried to show for the representations of the human mind in general when he laid out the participation of the particular, built-in rules of the mind, the organization of the mind as it were, in our representations.
~ Hermann von Helmholtz
In fact, other than certain aspects of low-level vision, I know of no success at relating systematicities of mental representations to the details of neural architecture.14
~ Unknown
From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than a system of representations; in either case, he differs only in degree from animals.
~ Émile Durkheim
Crees con formalidad que entre los dioses hay guerras, odios, combates y todas las demás pasiones tan sorprendentes que los poetas y pintores nos representan en sus poesías y en sus cuadros
~ Plato