
“Everything is in slow motion down there and silent. It could replace psychotherapy.”
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“Everything is in slow motion down there and silent. It could replace psychotherapy.”
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“The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodré. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.”
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: O comboio abranda, é o Cais do Sodré. Cheguei a Lisboa, mas não a uma conclusão.
In Search of Memory (2006)
Context: By merely observing the electrical activity in the brain, Libet could predict what a person would do before the person was actually aware of having decided to do it. This finding caused philosophers of mind to ask: If the choice is determined in the brain before we decide to act, where is free will?... choice in action, as in perception, may reflect the importance of unconscious inference. Libet proposes that... just before the action is initiated, consciousness is recruited to approve or veto the action.
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 16 (p. 164)
Travis Parker, Chapter 4, p. 54
2000s, The Choice (2007)
As quoted in The Early Years of the Saturday Club, 1855-1870 (1918) by Edward Waldo Emerson.
“And what else could you do, being a star?”
"A Note on Integrity" (17 July 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blyC329I3F0
Context: No one can tell the mountain what it's missing, or that it's lacking, or that it's something that it's not.... You know, you can shout all night long at the stars to stop twinkling — but they won't!... And it's quite a compliment, really, that you can be what you are, and that you can do the right thing, regardless of how popular it is, or if you have anyone helping you — or if you don't get anything for it.... All those people out there, looking up at you, screaming "stop twinkling!" — they have no power, at all. And what else could you do, being a star?