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The brain abhors discrepancies.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.
— Mona Van Duyn
If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.
— Charles Lindbergh
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Humility is understanding gratefulness oppose to self-praise & accepting envy as the answer to your actions of excellence.
— Ace Antonio Hall
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.
— Leslye Walton
Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.
— Ken Livingstone
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Anger is the spirits telling you that you are alive.
— Christopher Moore
Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
You know not what joys may be stored up for you in the cottage around which grace will plant the roses of content.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.
— Bob Ainsworth
A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
It must be a little love, - a baby, sort of,It shies away when the cars honk and hiss,
But adores the bells on the horse-tram. — Vladimir Mayakovsky