"I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think."

-- Jacques Lacan

#Thinking Quotes #My Thoughts Quotes

“Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it”
“They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.”
“I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive.”

Source : Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers (2002). “Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole”, Miramax Books
“"Be courageous and keep moving forward"... that's kind of the mantra that I've tried to keep.”
“Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.”

Source : "Through a Computer Darkly: Group Selection and Higher Brain Function". Gerald Edelman, "Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences", Volume 36, No. 1 (p. 25), www.jstor.org. October 1982.
“You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.”
“There are no endings.”
“may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back”

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