"The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself."

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Source : Thomas Metzinger (2009). “The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self”, p.96, Basic Books

Thomas Metzinger

#Conscious Quotes #Arise Quotes #Subjects Quotes

“Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago....”
“My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls and degrades and distorts, turning light to darkness and good to evil, rather than to gage a philosopher or weigh a philosophy. Yet the examination I propose must lead to a decisive judgment upon both.”
“It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'”
“I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?”
“In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.”
“I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
“I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the glory days for that boy, and this moment will just be another story someday because all the people who make touchdowns and home runs will become somebody's dad. And when his children look at his yearbook photograph, they will think that their dad was rugged and handsome and looked a lot happier than they are. I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.”
“Being strong is important. But knowing who you can count on is equally important”

Source : Niki Burnham (2010). “Sticky Fingers”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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