The palest ink is better than the best memory.
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art ...
The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until he can immerse himself in work and forget. Not love. Something else, something with a power that endures. Not love, but a memory of love.
Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?
Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. “Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room.” The Guardian. 10 September 2010...
Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious.
Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings.
If knowledge is not democratized, power can never be.
But it was smell that carried memory.
Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Your memories don't possess you, you possess your memories.
I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.
Sometimes people gone but the memories stay in our memories . . . . . .
Puppet Master: It can also be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve itself. Life has become more complex in the overwhelming sea of information. And life, when organized into species, relies upon genes to be its memory s...
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. A...
Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the pu...
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
