Robert M Quotes
Give lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez.
Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members.
When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.
The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?'
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.
No scale to balance, what's in my heart. No numbers to measure, nor even to chart. This love can't be seen, in ounces or in pounds. For only through time, can it's value be found.
We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints.
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.
Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against crime.
And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that.
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Importantly, rather than promoting aggression, testosterone promotes whatever is needed to maintain status when challenged.
The frontal cortex is an incredibly interesting part of the brain - ours is proportionately bigger and/or more complex than in any other species.
What happened during the minutes before? That's the realm of sensory stimuli of the nervous system.
When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.
Take a good hard look in the mirror, and remember yourself as you are today, cause as time changes, so does the scenery.
A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.
"When are we going to get going?" Chris says. "What's your hurry?" I ask. "I just want to get going." "There's nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here."
Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.
It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.
It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as to who can do the most acts of random kindness.
