Descartes Error Quotes

#1. Antonio Damasio has written three books: Looking for Spinoza, Descartes' Error, and The Feeling of What Happens. These

Terry Pratchett

#2. I write most of my stories the way people talk, complete with an occasional run-on sentences and stuff that seems to go around in a few circles before making its point. In a comedy, you can do that.

Dan Alatorre

#3. Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

G. Willow Wilson

#4. It indicates where the problem lies for Descartes. It lies in other people.

Paul C. Vitz

#5. I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. When the culture of police departments is sometimes infused with bias or preconceived ideas against certain groups, there needs to be reform and retraining throughout. And unfortunately, we cannot rely on local departments to police themselves; we need intervention from the top.

Al Sharpton

#7. No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

Emile M. Cioran

#8. I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

Rene Descartes

#9. When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

Stan Lee

#10. If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. It is also true that the separate brain units, by
virtue of where they are placed in a system, contribute different
components to the system's operation and are thus not interchangeable.

Antonio R. Damasio

#12. We should start using the mind as a tool, he argues, instead of letting the mind use us, which is the normal state of affairs. When Descartes said 'I think, therefore I am,' he had not discovered 'the most fundamental truth', Tolle insists; instead, he had given expression to 'the most basic error'.

Oliver Burkeman

#13. When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

Bernard Marcus