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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Never let parasites nest in your brain, whether they come waving the flag of intolerant religion or intolerant reason.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people don't get sick from bacteria or a virus- -living organisms alien to the human body- -but from the human brain itself. Our… — Buket Uzuner Copy Share Image
“What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of… — Dominic Cobb Copy Share Image
“Already, the brain consumed more than a quarter of the body's blood supply... an organ accounting for only a small percentage of body mass.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“the brain is an astounding and mysterious organ...it has been analyzed and poked and sliced and diced yet nobody has ever seen a personality… — Cameron Díaz Copy Share Image
“For every gain there is a sacrifice, and the removal of the parasite sometimes entails removal of the host.” — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
“Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.” — Bernard Werber Copy Share Image
“Consciousness has evolved biologically and can therefore be explained biologically.” — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
“The brain is an incredible multitasker. At the same time that it's piercing itself with superheated needles of anguish, it's ruthlessly making plans, contingencies,… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In accordance with such zeal, by reducing the external world to a matter of faith, he wanted merely to open a little door for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Alles Urdenken geschieht in Bildern: darum ist die Phantasie ein so nothwendiges Werkzeug desselben, und werden phantasielose Köpfe nie etwas Großes leisten, - es… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“When you consider how great and immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence - so great and so immediate… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could have easily… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“But it is common knowledge that religions don’t want conviction, on the basis of reasons, but faith, on the basis of revelation. And the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way off, mainly in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that Earth was… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
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