#nervous system

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ↗

— Russell Hoban

#attack #attacked #being #chance #got

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. ↗

— Dan Millman

#almost #creature #earth #i #i see

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. ↗

— Ingrid Newkirk

#boy #central #comes #dog #feel

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#brain #cling #coral #eats #finds

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#nervous #nervous system #oils #only #sustain

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#circulating #conscious #fact #immune #in fact

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#environment #existence #fixed #interpreting #just

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#god #may #nervous #nervous system #sins

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. ↗

— Carl Rogers

#being #distorted #each #experience #freely

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. ↗

— George Crumb

#basic #basic elements #central #directly #elements