Theorique Belgique Quotes & Sayings

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

I may not believe in God, but I still fear him. — Justin Go

There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!"
Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something? — Rachel Caine

There are three powers, three powers alone, able to conquer and to hold captive for ever the conscience of these impotent rebels for their happiness-those forces are miracle, mystery and authority. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of war for oil. — Daryl Hannah

The Eiani cleansed, refreshed, and rejuvenated me. In order to heal, it first had to burn away the dead, consume the decay, then force new life where death had once resided — Julia J. Gibbs

Our species is in trouble because we fight too much. We fight ourselves, each other, our planet, and God. Our fear-ridden ways are threatening our survival. A thoroughly loving person is like an evolutionary mutation, manifesting a being that puts love first and thus creates the context in which miracles occur. — Marianne Williamson

I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt. — Olivia Wilde

All told, farmed animals in the United States produce 130 times as much waste as the human population - — Jonathan Safran Foer

Envy is the basis of democracy. — Bertrand Russell

The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you're with people who recognize and own their negative qualities, you never feel judged by them. It's only when people see good and bad, right and wrong, as qualities outside themselves that judgments occur. — Deepak Chopra

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come to convey ... in many languages the most precious truths of Christianity had to force their way by bending stubborn words to new ideas, and filling old terms with new content. — Helen Barrett Montgomery

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit. — Kevin Whately