Cognitive Unconscious Quotes

#1. In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.

George Lakoff

#2. If God is all powerful, and Jesus is the son of God, why did He make His birthday fall on Christmas?

Dana Gould

#3. A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition of a much larger space in which mental processing takes place.

Thomas Metzinger

#4. What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover ... we are not alone.

Michael Harner

#5. The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#6. When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

Angelina Jolie

#7. Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

George Lakoff

#8. After a long moment, Laurent said, I'm going to need some help standing up.

C.S. Pacat

#9. Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.

Zack Love

#10. You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.

Eric Kandel

#11. If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.

Robert Ferrigno

#12. Critics have noted Schwarzenegger's only previous government experience was serving under President Bush senior as Chairman of the Council of Physical Fitness, a largely symbolic office, where Schwarzenegger's only responsibility was doing hundreds of jumping jacks he was going to do anyway.

Jon Stewart

#13. Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

Harold Simmons