"A culture without mythology is not really a…" — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
"A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation."
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26 Quotes by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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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…
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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…
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Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe…
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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…
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There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in…
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Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated…
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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…
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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,…
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
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America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we…
— Bill Bryson
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid…
— James Buchan
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We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal…
— David Cameron
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Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
— Thomas Jefferson
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...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation,…
— Yehudi Menuhin
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Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
— Vera Brittain
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until…
— Swami Vivekananda
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What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships…
— Carl Sagan
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