127 Quotes About Cognition

A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice.

In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.

What then am I? In the end, all we have is simply what we find, and what we can usefully say to each other about what we find is all that needs to be said. And perhaps, in the end, it's best just to sit quietly and let go of that thought too.

Personal reason is admittedly a meager asset, but take away human reason and we would exist in a world of utter ignorance and perpetual darkness.

What you find in the mirror you will find in the reality it mirrors.

Mechanism as a philosophic doctrine might be defined as the belief that the last machine which human ingenuity has created gives us the final form of reality.

Ларгитас не в силах видеть непознаваемое. Это вызов. Пощечина. Хищник, вторгшийся на чужую территорию. Непознаваемое надо скрутить в три погибели, силой превратить в непознанное – и вцепиться в него клыками и когтями познания. Это – залог существования. Инстинкт самосохранения. Иначе твое собственное право на жизнь подвергается сомнению.

Conscience is not a dead constant, it is a living, breathing, ever-evolving force of progress – a force of upliftment.

…depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview.