Neocortical Brain Quotes & Sayings

The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much. — Randolph Bourne

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

Thus, the very high developmental stance of pluralism - the product of at least six major stages of transformation - turns around and denies the very path that produced its own noble stance. It extends an egalitarian embrace to every stance, no matter how shallow or narcissistic. Thus, the more egalitarianism is implemented, the more it invites, indeed encourages, the Culture of Narcissism. And the Culture of Narcissism is the antithesis of the integral culture, the opposite of a world at peace. — Ken Wilber

In Him there is no room for non-existence or imperfection — Mulla Sadra

People rely on intelligence to solve problems, and they are naturally baffled when comprehension proves impotent to effect emotional change. To the neocortical brain, rich in the power of abstractions, understanding makes all the difference, but it doesn't count for much in the neural systems that evolved before understanding existed. Ideas bounce like so many peas off the sturdy incomprehension of the limbic and reptilian brains. The dogged implicitness of emotional knowledge, its relentless unreasoning force, prevents logic from granting salvation just as it precludes self-help books from helping. The sheer volume and variety of self-help paraphernalia testify at once to the vastness of the appetite they address and their inability to satisfy it. (118) — Thomas Lewis

Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God! — Flannery O'Connor

Stop thinking of yourself as the picked-on girl from the Third and act like the person you are now. Today. — Sara Ella

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity. — Pseudonymous Bosch

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. — Tony Curtis

I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times. — Salma Hayek

I am not Undine for Undine or the Little Mermaid sold her glory for feet. Undine (or the Little Mermaid) couldn't speak after she sold her glory. I will not sell my glory. — H.D.

No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it. — Bernard Lonergan

Dogbert to Dilbert
"My invention can detect human stupidity. It has a very simple interface. All I do is point it at people."
"Then what does it do?"
"Why would it need to do anything else? — Scott Adams

I thought you were dying, said Amalfitano.
"No, I was dreaming," said Castillo. — Roberto Bolano

But what you do sense, what is unmistakable, is a rising tide of frustration and anger and violence, born partly of the greater familiarity the poor today have with the rich, their faces pressed to that clear window on wealth afforded by ubiquitous television, and partly of the change in mentality that results from an outward shift in the supply curve for firearms. — Mohsin Hamid