“Our imagination is so poor that we haven’t even imagined what it would be like to have imagination.” ImaginationCognition Author:Neel Burton
“Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.” PhilosophyImaginationPsychologyEmotionsCognition Author:Neel Burton
“Poor feeling hijacks thinking for self-deception: to hide harsh truths, avoid action, evade responsibility, and, as the existentialists might put it, flee from freedom. Thus, poor feeling is a kind of moral failing, indeed, the deepest kind, and virtue principally consists in correcting and refining our emotions and the values that they reflect. To feel the right thing is to do the right thing, without any particular need for conscious thought or effort.” ReasonPhilosophyEmotionsEthicsExistentialismEmotional IntelligencePsychoanalysisSelf DeceptionCognition Book:Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions Source: Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions
“There seems to be an important relationship between language and thought: I often speak—or write, as I am doing right now—to define or refine my thinking on a particular topic, and language is the scaffolding by which I arrive at my more subtle or syncretic thoughts.” ThinkingWritingPhilosophyLanguageThoughtCognition Book:Hypersanity: Thinking Beyond Thinking Source: Hypersanity: Thinking Beyond Thinking
“It has been said that when an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. But when a language dies, it is a whole world that comes to an end.” PhilosophyDeathCultureLanguageBooksThoughtAnthropologyCognition Author:Neel Burton
