Cognition Quotations

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory. In short, cognizability (in its widest sense) and being are not merely metaphysically the same, but are synonymous terms.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We are all already looking directly at Spirit, we just don't recognize it. We have all the necessary cognition, but not the recognition.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.