Varela Quotes

#1. When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house.

Leonor Varela

#2. I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.

Leonor Varela

#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. I can't remember what my first script was.

Tom Stoppard

#5. I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#6. I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, but it's really beautiful when it's done well, when it's within a story. I'm very comfortable with my body. I grew up mostly in France, where nudity is not taboo.

Leonor Varela

#7. 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

#8. I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.

Jonathan Gottschall

#9. Freedom only exists when it doesn't belong to anybody.

Carlos Varela

#10. 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

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

Francisco Varela

#12. He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

Michael Newdow

#13. What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.

Leonor Varela

#14. I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense - the middle ground is not my forte.

Leonor Varela

#15. Take every day, love every day, enjoy every day, even if you have a crappy day, find the fun things in it.

Charles Trippy

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

Francisco Varela

#17. Most companies are not respectful of each individual's time.

Bill Jensen