Pierre Jean George Cabanis famous quotes

Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.
-- Pierre Jean George Cabanis

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In order to form for one's self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is necessary to conceive of the brain as a peculiar organ, specially designed for the production thereof, just as the stomach is designed to effect digestion, the liver to filter the bile, the parotids and the maxillary and sublingual glands to prepare the salivary juices.
-- Pierre Jean George Cabanis

#Self #Order #Brain

When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."

I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.

Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.