“My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.” Quote by George W. Romney
“The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.” HumansStatesRightsHuman RightsEnjoyedExpensesPermitStates Rights Author:George W. Romney
“I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.” WellsReasonFactsHelpingFeelingsSidesDecisionFascinatedShady Author:Antonio Damasio
“When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.” KnowsPainProcessDealsBrainCompassionEvolutionEvidenceSpeciesSpeedFasterSecondsPhysical PainMental Pain Author:Antonio Damasio
“Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.” WayCertainEmotionIntelligentDrivingLuxuryOutcomesOrganisms Author:Antonio Damasio
“There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.” MindBodyBrain Author:Antonio Damasio
“We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.” MindFeltProcessExistenceObjectsPerceptionPerceiveLinksOrganismsComponentsDistinctiveThought ProcessUnequivocalExistence Of Life Author:Antonio Damasio
“I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.” FeelsCertainLostAbilityDecisionEmotionStudyCircumstancesMajorsPatientEmote Author:Antonio Damasio
“Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.” SelfFeelingsBodyWould BeCertainConsciousnessRepresentationStimulusReactingUnthinkable Author:Antonio Damasio
“In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.” MindSelfSimplePayAttentionBrainPrinciplesCreaturesWho We AreAbstraction Author:Antonio Damasio
“Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.” NeedsWritingLongHandsRunningLastsLinesPaperRefugePencils Author:Antonio Damasio