“No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.” LongSelfMemoriesEternalIntellectualMereFactorsChainsAncestorAncestryAllegoryChained Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.” KnowsDifferentSelfMatterMemoriesAbilityAwarenessPerspectiveIntellectualTrainingConsciousTechniqueAnalysisSelf ConsciousSynthesisConscious Awareness Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis
“Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.” MemoriesStudyIntellectualPracticalsBreadApplicationGymnastics Book:Fireside Travels Source: Fireside Travels
“A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessments of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it, our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.” PeopleThinkingStatesWholeFactsSeemsPoliticalBeliefSoundReligiousMemoriesMoralIntellectualAssumingConvictionAbsurdArroganceSteadyOur MemoriesAssessmentOmniscientMoral Beliefs Author:Kathryn Schulz
“... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.” KindArtFeelingsRealityArtistMemoriesIntellectualTestsMusicalPoeticConstructionPlasticScopeTouchstones Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out. To make the game into something real, something more than merely an intellectual exercise, we elected to lose our exceptional faculties, to reduce us an entire level. This unfortunately, includes a loss of memory.” RealGamesLosesMemoriesLossLevelsExerciseIntellectualBuiltFacultyExceptionalMazesSomething Real Author:Philip K. Dick