Quotes About Soma

Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.

The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there's soma.

Soma may make you lose a few years in time,' the doctor went on. 'But think of the enormous, immeasurable durations it can give you out of time. Every soma-holiday is a bit of what our ancestors used to call eternity... Of course' Dr Shaw went on, 'you can't allow people to go popping off into eternity if they've got any serious work to do.

El servicio había empezado. Las tabletas de soma consagradas fueron colocadas en el centro de la mesa. La copa del amor llena de soma en forma de helado de fresa pasó de mano en mano, con la fórmula: «Bebo por mi aniquilación».

A gramme is better than a damn.

The whole of Ireland was put on to the four-hour day. What was the result? Unrest and a large increase in the consumption of soma; that was all. Those three and a half hours of extra leisure were so far from being a source of happiness, that people felt constrained to take a holiday from them.

Don't think of him.' 'I can't help it.' 'Take soma, then.' 'I do.' 'Well, go on.' 'But in the intervals I still like him. I shall always like him.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma.

He notes that the output of neurons is digital: an axon either fires or it doesn't. This was far from obvious at the time, in that the output could have been an analog signal. The processing in the dendrites leading into a neuron and in the soma neuron cell body, however, are analog. He describes these calculations as a weighted sum of inputs with a threshold.

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.