Antonio Damasio Quotes

Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

Antonio Damasio

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  M. C. Escher
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• The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

  

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• If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.

  

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• I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

  

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• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

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• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through the love I have for all humanity, a love I try to express through my music.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
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• I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

  

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• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

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• The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Day
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• I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
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• St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

  

  Fay Wray
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• I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

  

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• I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.

  

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• I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
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• It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

  

  Al Smith
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  • Sympathy

• The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Nature

• True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Living
  • Goodness

• Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • True
  • Consciousness
  • Access