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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic…
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other…
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Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and…
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Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness…
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There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected…
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Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such…
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I…
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence…
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That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening…
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Life is adventure, not predicament.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak…
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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude…
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When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies…
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I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and…
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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
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Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
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Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!
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We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a…
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They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I…
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When we stop to count our blessings rather than focusing on our predicament, our attitude will be able to help us cope…
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