"Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause."

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Johannes Peter Muller

#Quality Quotes #Nerves Quotes #Body Quotes

“No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.”

Source : Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.95, Faber & Faber
“He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.”
“Everybody have equal rights to a life of full flourishing. Philosophy slowly, slowly has given us arguments saying, look, you already committed to your own life flourishing, and you're being inconsistent if you don't expand it. So philosophy often works in trying to show us that there's an inner incoherence in our points of view. We're all committed to one thing when it comes to us and our own kind, but we're not willing to expand it and we're guilty of inconsistency.”
“For me, trying to expand the energy to make one movie in Hollywood would be the equivalent in terms of energy to making 10 movies in Japan.”
“He had always beaten me. It feels good to get a little revenge. I knew I just had to keep pushing, and it just feels great to be on top.”
“Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.”
“Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible”
“We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.”

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