nervous quotes

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you takethe energy processseriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

-Timothy Francis Leary
  Lecture,  Jun, collected in The Politics of Ecstasy (1968), ch.21.

   In my systematic explorations through the realms of microscopic anatomy, there came the turn of the nervous system, that masterpiece of life.

- Santiago Ramo  n y Cajal
  Recollections of My Life.

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

-Jean-Paul Sartre
  Preface to Franz Fanon Les Damne  s de la terre (The Wretched of theEarth,1967, translated by Constance Farrington). Tsitsi Dangarembga uses this sentence to supply both epigraph and title of her1988 novel Nervous Conditions.

In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting.

-John Hoyer Updike
  Self-Consciousness,VI.'On Being A Self Forever'.