Antonio Damasio Quotes

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.

I'm a version of the same person.

I still feel like the same girl who grew up in Albion Park. I'm such a family girl. I haven't changed.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

I am the type of guy that has always been the same all of my life. My classmates at our class reunion always say the same thing. They could not believe that, being a world artist, I still seem like I was when we were at school together.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

I'm still the same cat I always was.

I'm like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.

I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more or less.

The most important thing is that you have really good friends and family, and when you go back to them, it's like 'what?'. You carry on as who you are.

I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.

In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

The fact is I'm very self-similar.

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.

The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who sat in at the draft board in 1965, I'm the same person who joined a fraternity, I'm the same person who got an MFA at Bennington, and I'm the same person who founded Weather Underground. My values are still intact.

I still feel like the same person, in every way - it is just some of my surroundings have changed and there are lots of new people in my life.

I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.

When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?

I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.

When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.