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Iain McGilchrist has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into…
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Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share…
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness…
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be…
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap…
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind…
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their…
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn…
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If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
— Ambrose Bierce
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest…
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I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
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I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
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I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.
— Ron Reagan
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals…
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Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man.
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To the victors belong the spoils.
— Andrew Jackson
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The rotten apple spoils his companion.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It…
— Norman Mailer
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I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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