Decapite Quotes & Sayings

All art is quite useless. — Oscar Wilde

The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual's autobiography, on the basis of which a notion of identity can be reconstructed repeatedly, by partial activation in topologically organized sensory maps ...
In brief, the endless reactivation of updated images about our identity (a combination of memories of the past and of the planned future) constitutes a sizable part of the state of self as I understand it.
The second set of representations underlying the neural self consists of the primordial representations of an individual's body ... Of necessity, this encompasses background body states and emotional states. The collective representation of the body constitute the basis for a "concept" of self, much as a collection of representations of shape, size, color, texture, and taste can constitute the basis for the concept of orange. — Antonio R. Damasio

Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines. — Abhijit Naskar

You want it rough and raw," he rasped in a low whisper. "I'll give you that, love. I'll give you the fucking world. — Kit Rocha

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable. — Marissa Mayer

I think as a writer, it's important to show the other part of being gay, not only the sex part. — Luis Negron

WARNING: The production of spirit is a very delicate and dangerous procedure. It should be left to the professionals and under absolutely no circumstance be replicated. — S.A. Tawks

Either human beings must be more instinctive, or animals must be more conscious than we had previously suspected. The similarities, not the differences, were what caught the attention. — Matt Ridley

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old. — Luc De Clapiers

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole. — E.F. Schumacher

A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth. — William Hazlitt

I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine. — Iris Apfel