Antonio Damasio Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

  Antonio Damasio

  Thinking, Feelings, Machines

• Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

  Antonio Damasio

  Pain, Bird, Feelings

• What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Feelings, Brain

• The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe that in terms of an individual's development they are followed by mechanisms of secondary emotions, which occur once we begin experiencing feelings and forming systematic connections between categories of objects and situations, on the one hand, and primary emotions, on the other.

  Antonio Damasio

  Believe, Emotional, Hands

  Antonio Damasio (2008). “Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain”, p.204, Random House

• Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Feelings, Would Be

  "Feeling Our Emotions". Interview with Manuela Lenzen, www.scientificamerican.com.

• Feeling of an emotion is a process that is distinct from having the emotion in the first place. So it helps to understand what is an emotion, what is a feeling, we need to understand what is an emotion.

  Antonio Damasio

  Feelings, Needs, Firsts

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

  Antonio Damasio

  Decision, Feelings, Sides

  "Feeling Our Emotions". Interview with Manuela Lenzen, www.scientificamerican.com.

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