The 40 best sentences of Eduard Punset about happiness and love
Eduard Punset is an exceptional character . Born in Barcelona in 1936, his life has been full of successes and experiences very out of the ordinary.
Minister of Foreign Affairs in the first years after the Democratic Transition that Spain lived, his training as an economist and his dialogue spirit gave him a spectacular trajectory. After concluding his time in politics, Eduard Punset became increasingly interested in the world of science.
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Quotes and famous quotes of Eduard Punset, the Spanish 'Einstein'
His work as a scientific disseminator is as extensive as it is exciting. Especially interested in topics such as neuroscience, happiness or love, Punset is a well-known face in Spanish society, especially after his stage at the head of the program Networks that broadcast public television.
In this article We are going to know the best quotes and phrases of Eduard Punset .
1. Without emotion there is no project.
The basis of motivation is the emotion with which we propel ourselves into the future.
2. Love existed before the soul.
An esoteric phrase by Eduard Punset that can leave us thinking.
3. For me, freedom is that the King does not have more rights than me.
The absence of privileges is the basis of every free and egalitarian society.
4. None of your neurons knows who you are ... does not care.
Ironically, the cells in charge of thinking are not aware of themselves.
5. I have learned more from animals than from men.
In nature, more phenomena are explained than in the complex postindustrial society.
6. The soul is in the brain.
According to Eduard Punset, if the soul is located somewhere, it is in our mind.
7. Politics is the worst human invention.
Despite having devoted part of his career to politics (or perhaps for that very reason), Eduard Punset speaks in this way of the public scene.
8. Be kind to people when you go up; You will find them all when you go down.
Even if you succeed, do not forget that nothing is forever.
9. In matters of love and indifference, we are like newborns all our lives.
We live learning to relate, and we never quite know how to act in certain situations.
10. Happiness is ephemeral, it is a transitory state.
What does science tell us about happiness? Punset is clear that we can not aspire to always live between smiles.
11. Sex happens as if to memory, if it is not used, it disappears.
These are skills that must be trained frequently.
12. It is very likely that the best decisions are not the result of a reflection of the brain but the result of an emotion.
We tend to despise the power of our emotions. Our emotional side is also capable of taking us on the right path.
13. Unlearning most of the things you have taught us is more important than learning.
The influence of the media binds us to a culture of myths and half-truths.
14. If life were eternal we would not put in it the same intensity.
Being finite individuals impels us to take advantage of every minute of life.
15. Even bacteria work by consensus, or they do not work.
A metaphor extrapolated to societies.
16. God is getting smaller and smaller and science is getting bigger.
As science progresses, it is increasingly unreasonable to think that there can be a higher entity.
17. Without doubt, the sector will continue to grow. The problem is that this desire to boost their growth will also create the temptation to control. We have tried with women, until we saw that they were not our property. Then to the children and the animals ... I hope that the same thing does not happen to us with Internet.
On the control society and its transformation with the appearance of new technologies.
18. Happiness is hidden in the waiting room of happiness.
Happiness is what is presumed when we wait for it. Ironic but true.
19. In life there are three crucial moments: the stage of maternal love, school and the entrance to maturity.
The stages of life according to this famous quote by Eduard Punset.
20. Power has been exercised abjectly for thousands of years.
Slavery, social classes, marginalization, discrimination of ethnic and cultural minorities ... Punset's sentence that is explained alone.
21. I do not see it impossible that in half of life one can spend a few years studying other universes and then postpone the retirement date.
About his lifestyle and his interest in astronomy.
22. I have met many men who were not half as affectionate as the monkeys.
Especially happy to share time and space with primates, Punset left this funny phrase for posterity.
2. 3.What is needed is more knowledge.
A quick but scathing critique of the Spanish educational system.
24. Majority thinking? I believe that thought is always minority.
In this ironic way, Eduard Punset responded in an interview.
25. I think that first you have to realize that there is life before death and not be obsessed all the time to know if there is life after death.
We live in sorrow for the beyond, without noticing the wonders of the "more here".
26. One of the current failures is the absence of young leadership. Evolutively, the herd always appealed to young people when they had difficulties: to cross a river, to climb a mountain.
In politics, it is clear that young leadership is a real rarity.
27. A person who has a very high degree of aggressiveness, a need for encouragement and a need for mastery to replace his absence of emotions, is more likely to become a murderer or even a serial killer.
About the aggressive personality.
28. Today you can not be pessimistic, because, when you look back, any past time was worse.
Certainly, and with all the problems of representative democracy, our time is the one that provides more comforts and rights among citizens.
29. I have some bald friends and I tell them that throughout the evolution baldness fulfilled a purpose: to avoid the infections of lice, fleas and insects.
This audacious response, although it may seem like a simple joke, is actually a well-studied evolutionary phenomenon.
30. Is there still someone looking for solutions in what the bishops say?
Another phrase of Eduard Punset that shows his distrust before the catholic religion.
31. We must rediscover where lies the ability to innovate: in the acquisition of new skills such as digital management techniques, the ability to concentrate despite the multiplicity of supports, teamwork and the vocation to solve problems.
An innovative look at the future of companies and the post-industrial society.
32. Even if a poor person gets rich, he will continue to suffer the same diseases that affect the poor, as a result of the oppression he suffered in the past.
A paradox about wealth and inequalities.
33. In the future, it will not be a matter of redistributing wealth as in the past, but of redistributing working time.
Although many economists and sociologists have been promulgating ideas such as the Decreción for years, it seems that the political formulas to articulate this thought of Eduard Punset still do not arrive.
34. Love was the first instinct of survival in the history of the species and is linked to passion.
To reflect for days on love and past experiences.
35. We live with the technological changes of the 21st century and with social institutions of the 19th century.
His reflection on the gap between technology and science regarding the model of society that is promoted from public institutions.
36. Without love there is no life. We have the instinct to merge with another individual, because we feel helpless in life.
Another phrase that distills knowledge of years student the human condition.
37. When you are in the womb, we inherit 200 harmful mutations. It remains a mystery how we can resist such a huge level of damaging mutations.
About the enigmas of genetics.
38. Passionate or romantic love has a lot to do with sex. Love existed billions of years that there was sexual differentiation.
The biology of our ancestors was totally different from ours.
39. I spent my childhood in a town of 300 inhabitants, and I grew up on the street. My countrymen were the birds, and I used to raise owls.
A curious remnant about a childhood during the Civil War.
40. When there is no fear, there is happiness.
A sentence on the happiness of the great Punset.
