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Jonah Lehrer

Proust Was a Neuroscientist

  • b9399499104has quoted3 years ago
    Reality is a product of the most august imagination.
  • Alicia Sandovalhas quoted4 years ago
    The artist describes what the scientist can't
  • Alicia Sandovalhas quoted4 years ago
    As Woolf liked to remind herself, "Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small."
  • Alicia Sandovalhas quoted4 years ago
    "We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself
  • Alicia Sandovalhas quoted4 years ago
    All music needs is a violated pattern, an order interrupted by a disorder, for in that acoustic friction, we hallucinate a feeling. Music is that feeling. The Rite of Spring was the first symphonic work to celebrate this fact. It is the sound of art changing the brain
  • Alicia Sandovalhas quoted4 years ago
    realized that the engine of music is conflict, not consonance
  • Alicia Sandovalhas quoted4 years ago
    The mind is not a camera. As Cézanne understood, seeing is imagining
  • Alicia Sandovalhas quoted4 years ago
    The more you remember something, the less accurate the memory becomes
  • Alicia Sandovalhas quoted4 years ago
    Science has long known that our sensitivity to certain smells and tastes varies by as much as 1,000 percent between individuals
  • Alicia Sandovalhas quoted4 years ago
    The taste of most flavors is smell
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