“It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.” TryingMindHardMomentsSeemsCoursesGivenGoalConsciousnessStrangeGoes OnAccountsWorthyTinyTruthfulRepresentationInstantaneous Author:George Saunders
“He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.” MenWorldHeartMomentsEyeCompassionVirtueThis WorldSorrowAccountsWetNobilitySpirited Author:Kedar Joshi
“New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.” WorldIdeasWholeMomentsProblemBodyInspirationScienceCommunityStruggleSpringLonelyAccountsInspiredWhole WorldOrganizedResearchers Author:Max Planck
“I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.” MomentsSituationPsychologyAccountsConvincedBoundariesPsychologicalOrganismsNew Situations Book:Conversations with Jean Piaget Source: Conversations with Jean Piaget
“Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.” MenChildrenMomentsBornAccountsFistsAvarice Book:Essays on Men and Manners Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.” WorldMomentsHomeBodyForceTeacherDogAccountsLive In The MomentGreat TeacherBank AccountsDog Love Author:Susan Cheever