"We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now."

-- Antonio Damasio

#Self Quotes #Brain Quotes #Mind Quotes

“In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.”
“I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again.”
“For me, art is always a kind of theater.”

Source : Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.
“Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.”
“Decide that you donâ€™t mind being inconvenienced or interrupted, and God will use you to make a difference.”
“There are only three kinds of people. LEADERS. Those who take charge, build, inspire, and create. FOLLOWERS. Those who support leaders and work to achieve mutually beneficial goals.... [and] DESTROYERS. Destroyers cannot find it within themselves to follow anyone, their hatred and insecurity is too pure to see strength in any OTHER being. The utterly lack the ability to inspire or create, so they do the only thing left to them -- they tear down all they come in contact with.”
“More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.”
“A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence.”

Source : Otto Weininger (1907). “Sex & Character”

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