George Eliot | "The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic."

"The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic."

George Eliot, British Author

Cognition, Mind, Desire, Thought, Logic

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"The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic."

"Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them."

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"The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day."

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"One lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity."

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"The concern of your brain is not to see the actual nature of reality, but to represent the reality to you in such a way that suits your needs."

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"The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality."

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"The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic."

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"A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky."

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"The mind is a neural computer."

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"You cannot solve a level four problem with level one thinking."

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"A single thought can shift your entire world."

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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."

Character

"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."

Relationship

"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."

Wisdom

"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."

Behavior

"Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos."

Mythology

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

Man

"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."

Love

"To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion."

Emotional

"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."

Love

"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

History