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Self Quotes by Antonio Damasio
- 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 day?
- The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade,…
- The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and…
- We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our…
- What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own…
- Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more…
- ...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and…
- We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense…
- Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be…
- You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are…
- Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates…
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- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy
- Forgive yourself and get over 'self hatred.' In life, everybody screws up I mean everybody. Some people blame themselves for stuff, when… — Pacifiersucker
- It is the policy of the Indian government: We can lament the lack of talent in the country because it is easier… — Mak_786
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis