Michele Pasin / Quotes

Conscience and internalized rules

Turns out it’s surprisingly difficult to explain proactive moral behavior, like voluntarily helping someone cross the street. Even enlightened self-interest…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #conscience #morality #executive-function #rules

Conscience and the heart

I saw Apocalypse Now at the cinema. I couldn't take me eyesaway from the screen. What you been up to, then, eh? On the record, there's Marlon Brando reading…

Control Script - Transcript From The Screenplay And/or The Ian Curtis Joy Division Movie #conscience

Ryoshin, la coscienza innata

Cosa propone Onishi, dopo essersi sbarazzato di tutte le etiche fasulle? Egli si appella al ryoshin, termine confuciano dalla lunga storia. Meng-tzu fu il…

Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena) #conscience #ethics #consciousness #individuals #confucianism

Socrates' daimon was an external sign

Socrates always claimed to follow his own daimon, what Cicero called a ‘divine something’: a personal god or spirit, what we might be inclined to think of as…

The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon) #philosophers #conscience #spirituality

A culture with few magical objects

Now it is symptomatic of our rusty-beer-can type of sanity that our culture produces very few magical objects. Jewelry is slick and uninteresting…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #book #imagination

Le fantasie dei romanzi e delle canzoni

E lui, cosa diavolo vuole? Cosa va cercando? Insegue ancora le fantasie che si è ficcato in testa con i romanzi che divorava da ragazzino per sottrarsi a una…

L'imperfetta meraviglia (Andrea De Carlo) #fiction #music #imagination #self-deception