Cognitive Deterioration Quotes

Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.

My mother had very poor hearing for many years, until she went basically into - I guess I would call it a psychotic break. She was OK one day, and the next day she was completely cuckoo, violent, paranoid.

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

People are always talking about the dumbing down of the country.