Neurological Conditions Quotes

#1. When emotion is entirely left out of the reasoning picture, as happens in certain neurological conditions, reason turns out to be even more flawed than when emotion plays bad tricks on our decisions.

Antonio R. Damasio

#2. God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

Jonathan Swift

#3. The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

Rose Bird

#4. Because that's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block everything we can't.

Holly Smale

#5. Mortal life is too short to be worried all the time.

A. Lee Martinez

#6. Emergency dance party--go away.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

Plato

#8. ...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.

Immanuel Kant

#9. But a thing I've often noticed is that when I've got something off my mind, it pretty nearly always happens that Fate sidles up and shoves on something else,

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. Fiona fixed a slice of bread to the toasting fork and held it out to the flames. So began the ritual. Hot butter melted off the slices of toast and dribbled onto their fingers.

Alex Nye