Quotes by : António R. Damásio

I do not see emotions and feelings as the intangible and vaporous qualities that many presume them to....

Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable....

We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively....

The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological"....

...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth....

The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two....

As a consequence of natural analgesic actions or as a result of the administration of drugs that interfere....

We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered....

The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.

WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans....