#nit

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years. ↗

— David Chalmers

#been #cognitive #consciousness #had #i

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#always #between #cannot #difference #far

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#been #before #evening #flattered #following

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#articulate #better #between #boundaries #case

This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#alert #business #business community #certain #change

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#during #humanity #pandemic #really #threat

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out. ↗

— Iris Chang

#books #changing #comfort #coming #experiments

It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing. ↗

— Stockard Channing

#because #beginning #dear #dear friend #definitely

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#give #government #happiness #men #office

We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#believe #big #big enough #each #enough