#cognition

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. ↗

— Cary Grant

#beware #failings #own #past #recognition

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#dealing #familiar #hysterical #laughing #laughter

Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective - life. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#courage #desire #determination #energy #enthusiasm

Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes. ↗

— Craig M. Mullaney

#dadt #military #philosophy #theology #change

The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers' licenses are recognized. But not people. People haven't any use for faces anymore, it seems. They are busy looking at your credit card, your driver's licence, your social security number. If a driver's licence is more reliable than the face I wear, then why do I have a face? ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#people #recognition #society #system #business

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#apprehension #deep #earliest #fears #glimpse

It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I might, I will never be able to explain to you the form of Will... My explanation would only show the correlation between myself and that Will by means of a correlation on the verbal level. The negation of cognition thus correlates to the negation of language. For when those two pillars of Western humanism, individual cognition and evolutionary continuity, lose their meaning, language loses meaning. Existence ceases for the individuum as we know it, and all becomes chaos. You cease to be a unique entity unto yourself, but exist simply as chaos. And not just the chaos that is you; your chaos is also my chaos. To wit, existence is communication, and communication, existence. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#cognition #existence #language #communication

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted. ↗

— James Joyce

#communication #knowledge #communication

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

#dying #precognition #death

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. ↗

— Friedrich von Hayek

#design