Siri Hustvedt Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Siri Hustvedt quotes and sayings page 4 (novelist). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 99 we have.
“None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.”
“Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?”
“Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.”
“People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.”
“Rage has such focus. It can't go on forever, but it's invigorating.”
“Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.”
“The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.”
“The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.”
“The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.”
“The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.”
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