„When you have an emotion you are recruiting a variety of mechanisms that came in the long history of evolution, long before emotions arose, and those mechanisms all had to do with how an organism manages its life.“
António Damásio16
médico neurologista e neurocientista português 1944Citações relacionadas
„Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?“
— Henry James, The Ambassadors
Context: Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?.. What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that... The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.. Live!
The Ambassadors (1903), book V, ch. II.
„The recoil from the absolute of mechanism was into an equally sterile absolute of the organic: the raw primitive. The organic processes, reduced to shadows by the machine, made a violent effort to retrieve their position. The machine, which acerbically denied the flesh, was offset by the flesh, which denied the rational, the intelligent, the orderly processes of behavior that have entered into all man’s cultural developments—even those developments that most closely derive from the organic. The spurious notion that mechanism had naught to learn from life was supplanted by the equally false notion that life had nothing to learn from mechanism.“
— Lewis Mumford, book Technics and Civilization
Technics and Civilization (1934), Ch. 6, sct. 9
„Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.“
— Richard M. Weaver American scholar 1910 - 1963
“Individuality and Modernity,” Essays on Individuality (Philadelphia: 1958), p. 66.
„Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long.“
— T.S. Eliot, book The Hollow Men
The Hollow Men (1925)
„Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.“
— Tim Burton, Burton on Burton
„[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.“
— Margaret Mead American anthropologist 1902 - 1978
1940s, Balinese Character (1942), p. 48
„War has changed little in principle from the beginning of recorded history. The mechanized warfare of today is only an evolution of the time when men fought with clubs and stones, and its machines are as nothing without the men who invent them, man them and give them life.“
— Ernest King United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations 1878 - 1956
Context: War has changed little in principle from the beginning of recorded history. The mechanized warfare of today is only an evolution of the time when men fought with clubs and stones, and its machines are as nothing without the men who invent them, man them and give them life. War is force- force to the utmost- force to make the enemy yield to our own will- to yield because they see their comrades killed and wounded- to yield because their own will to fight is broken. War is men against men. Mechanized war is still men against men, for machines are masses of inert metal without the men who control them- or destroy them.
p. viii
„The machine process pervades the modern life and dominates it in a mechanical sense. Its dominance is seen in the enforcement of precise mechanical measurements and adjustment and the reduction of all manner of things, purposes and acts, necessities, conveniences, and amenities of life, to standard units.“
— Thorstein Veblen, book The Theory of Business Enterprise
The Theory of Business Enterprise, 1904, p. 306
„We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.“
— Rachel Carson American marine biologist and conservationist 1907 - 1964
Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal (April 1952); also in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999) edited by Linda Lear, p. 96
„The first living organisms on Earth doubtless arose in an aqueous environment, and the course of evolution has been shaped by the proper ties of the aqueous medium in which life began.“
— Albert L. Lehninger American biochemist 1917 - 1986
Principles of Biochemistry, Ch. 2 : Water
„Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.“
— Doris Lessing British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer 1919 - 2013
„But full emotional and intellectual belief never came. Perhaps if I had caught my first sense of life from the church I would have been moved to complete acceptance, but the hymns and sermons of God came into my heart only long after my personality had been shaped and formed by uncharted conditions of life. I felt that I had in me a sense of living as deep as that which the church was trying to give me, and in the end I remained basically unaffected.“
— Richard Wright African-American writer 1908 - 1960
Black Boy (1945)
