"Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it."

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Source : "David Chalmers on the Big Conundrum: Consciousness". Interview with Natasha Mitchell, www.abc.net.au. August 10, 2003.

David Chalmers

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.”
“I prefer to see with closed eyes.”

Source : Arts/Canada, Vol. 23, (p. 46), 1966.
“It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
“What's important is that I'm working with very talented young people.”
“Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me.”

Source : George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.210, Faber & Faber
“We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case.”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.65, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.”
“It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.”

Source : Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

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