Francisco Varela Quotes

#1. The instinct of worship is still so strong upon us that, having nearly worn out our capacity for treating kings and such kind of persons as sacred, we are ready to invest a majority of our own selves with the same kind of reverence.

Auberon Herbert

#2. How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.

Patrick Suskind

#3. The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

Francisco Varela

#4. Yeah, we call that mulling around. Okay guys, come on now. What we're going to do early in this game is mull around, okay? And later, we're going call that monkey-off-our-back play.

Les Miles

#5. The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine.

Francisco Varela

#6. All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. We are so emotionally involved with and attached to this "self" that we take it for granted.

Francisco Varela

#7. The ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the fear and chaos that were tangled in my mind made that an impossibility.

Chelsie Shakespeare

#8. I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena

Francisco Varela

#9. We are all Dead, just not yet buried.

Brandon Notch

#10. What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is all for this body that I put my hand voluntarily upon my fellow human beings, just to keep it nice and give it a little pleasure. It is all for the body that I injure others and make mistakes.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. This is what evil does; it makes choices for others in the name of religion, in the name of government, in the name of community, in the name of personal gain, that these individuals are best able to make for themselves.

John Kramer

#12. Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

Brian Setzer

#13. I'm telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

Chris Cleave

#14. The secret of staying young is to be simple and happy like a child.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.

Francisco Varela