Cognitive Value Quotes

Games have to be relevant intellectually.

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.

The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation is cut off. The meaning is fixed, doctored, loaded. Once it has become an official vocable, constantly repeated in general usage, "sanctioned" by the intellectuals, it has lost all cognitive value and serves merely for recognition of an unquestionable fact.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'