"People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think."

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Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.166, Head of Zeus

Peter Watts

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.”

Source : "Sculptures that engage your heart - and expand your mind". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 3, 2011.
“In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.”
“Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.”
“Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.”

Source : Kevin Bales (2005). “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader”, p.5, Univ of California Press
“No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in oneâ€™s own culture but within oneself.”
“The truth is, homes change over time â€”Â and technology has to adapt, not try to do everything at once.”
“I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!”
“Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.”

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