"Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out……" — Antonio Damasio
"Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you."
—
Antonio Damasio
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
35 Quotes by Antonio Damasio
Antonio Damasio has 35 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed…
-
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the…
-
More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the…
-
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and…
-
A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
-
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after…
-
Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also…
-
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of…
-
The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made;…
-
We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that…
-
What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to…
-
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
See all 35 quotes by Antonio Damasio »
More Alive Quotes
This quote is filed under Alive Quotes,
one of 4,909 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
— David Attenborough
-
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
— Paul Auster
-
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
— Richard Bach
-
The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up…
— Michele Bachmann
-
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
— Pearl Bailey
-
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me…
— James A. Baldwin
-
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express…
— Ansel Adams
-
My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful…
— Travis Barker
-
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then…
— Roseanne Barr
-
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I…
— Roseanne Barr
See all 4,909 Alive Quotes »