Top 17 Varela Quotes
#1. Freedom only exists when it doesn't belong to anybody.
Carlos Varela
#2. Most companies are not respectful of each individual's time.
Bill Jensen
#3. When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.
Francisco Varela
#4. Take every day, love every day, enjoy every day, even if you have a crappy day, find the fun things in it.
Charles Trippy
#5. 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
#6. 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
#8. I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena
Francisco Varela
#9. 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
#10. When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house.
Leonor Varela
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#15. I can't remember what my first script was.
Tom Stoppard
#16. The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence
Francisco Varela
#17. I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.
Leonor Varela
