Pride and a Daily Marathon,
It takes a special energy, over and above one's creative potential, a special audacity or subversiveness, to strike out in a new direction once one is settled. It is a gamble as all creative projects...
I liked numbers because they were solid, invariant; they stood unmoved in a chaotic world. There was in numbers and their relation something absolute, certain, not to be questioned, beyond doubt.
Did being in love itself flood the body with opioids, or cannabinoids, or whatever?
[I]t is precisely such a paradox that lies at the heart of nostalgia - for nostalgia is about a fantasy that never takes place, one that maintains itself by not being fulfilled.
I do not think of old age as an ever grimmer time that one must somehow endure and make the best of, but as a time of leisure and freedom, freed from the factitious urgencies of earlier days, free to...
Empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being.
And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound chan...
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.
—¿Es usted desgraciado? —continué. —No puedo decir que lo sea. —¿Disfruta de la vida? —No puedo decir que disfrute… Vacilé, con miedo a estar yendo demasiado lejos, a estar desnudando a un hombre hast...
يمكننا أن نرى بسهولة في الآخرين ما لا نهتم أو نجرؤ على رؤيته في أنفسنا
We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognise and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses -- secret senses, sixth senses, if you will --...
Thus the primal, animal sense of 'the other,' which may have evolved for the detection of threat, can take on a lofty, even transcendent function in human beings, as a biological basis for religious p...
The left hemisphere is more sophisticated and specialized, a very late outgrowth of the primate, and especially the hominid, brain. On the other hand, it is the right hemisphere which controls the cru...
I only seem to find the right way after making every possible blunder, and finally exhausting all the wrong ways.
I did not seem to have any special project to animate me.
He reached out his hand, and took hold of his wife’s head, tried to lift it off, to put it on. He had apparently mistaken his wife for a hat!
For me, this was an example of how unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the c...
يمكن لطفل أن يتابع الكتاب المقدس قبل أن يتابع إقيلدس, ليس لأن الكتاب المقدس أبسط (يمكن قول العكس) بل لأنه مطروح بأسلوب رمزي و قصصي
يدعي الطب دوما أن التجربة هي الأختبار لعملياته وبالتالي كان أفلاطون محقا عندما قال إنه من أجل أن يصبح المرء طبيبا حقيقيا لابد أن يكون قد اختبر جميع الأمراض التي يأمل أن يعالجها وجميع الحوادث والحالات...