"Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret states of anxiety, excitement, or depression in terms of physiological factors involving levels of serotonin, adrenalin, or blood sugar. To say that the characterization of thinking has a normative function that is irreducible to neurophysiological processing is not to say that our extant classification of the forms of thinking is incorrigible."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Ray Brassier

#Thinking Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.”
“People like to play with the tuna, sometimes.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.”

Source : Dan Jenkins (2015). “"YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!"”, p.284, Simon and Schuster
“For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
“Always think about your future with a smile on your face, because your thoughts will eventually become your future.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lilly Ghalichi from Nov 20, 2014
“The best teacher in life is experience.”

Source : "LeBron, Cavs survive Warriors comeback to win Game 3 96-91" by Tom Withers, www.businessinsider.com. June 10, 2015.
“On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.”

Source : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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