Quotes of: Representational Keyword

The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual's autobiography, on the basis of which a notion of identity ...

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

Emile Durkheim

Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us.

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Rush Limbaugh

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

Antonio Damasio

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

Marvin Minsky

The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity.

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the...

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. ...

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the most perfect images of hysteria, the hysteric – a woman whose illness simulates the symptoms of other diseases ...

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to fe...

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

All happiness is of a negative rather than positive nature, and for this reason cannot give lasting satisfaction and gratification, but rather only ever a release from a pain or lack, which must be followed either by a new pain or by languor, empty y...

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

Seule la totalite personnifie la verite. Neanmoins, la totalite represente simplement la nature essentielle parvenant a son etat complet au travers du processus de son propre developpement. Il doit etre dit que, fondamentalement, l'Absolu est un resu...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens....

George Saunders

It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the schoolmen, which, in the absence of all real knowledge, spent its energy upon mere formulas and words, and that...

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. We see striving everywhere inhibited...

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

Hugh Hopper

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

Agnes Martin