Cognitive Paradox Quotes

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take use all the way.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).