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I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
— Antonio Damasio
Antonio Damasio has written three books: Looking for Spinoza, Descartes' Error, and The Feeling of What Happens. These
— Terry Pratchett
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.
— Antonio Damasio
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.
— Antonio Damasio
A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.
— 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.
— Antonio Damasio
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What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.
— Antonio Damasio
I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
— Renzo Piano
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.
— Antonio Damasio
Most of our decision making was shaped by somatic states related to punishment and reward. But
— Antonio R. 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.
— Antonio Damasio
The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.
— Antonio R. Damasio
Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
— Antonio Damasio
A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
— Antonio Damasio
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
— Antonio Damasio
The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.
— Antonio Damasio
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music.
— George Herbert
We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.
— Antonio Damasio
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?
— Antonio Damasio
If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma.
— Dane Cook
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
— John Armstrong
WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.
— Antonio R. Damasio
Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.
— Mary Louisa Molesworth
The immune system, the hypothalamus, the ventro-medial frontal cortices, and the Bill of Rights have the same root cause.
— Antonio R. Damasio
Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.
— Antonio Damasio
Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.
— Antonio Damasio
