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

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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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."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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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."

Darrell Calkins, American Author

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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."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

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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."

George Eliot, British Author

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"We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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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."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

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"When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person."

Daniel Goleman, American Author

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"The mind is a neural computer."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

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"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."

Existence

"Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than Sinbad's haunts or Ariosto's vast geographies.For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end."

Literature

"We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods."

Mythology

"He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite."

Philosophy

"It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death."

Mortality

"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."

Reading

"So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature."

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