The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

Money can be the reward for efforts, but it should not be the reason for them. You must have something bigger than that.

That eveningWhen I was all aloneIn our bedroomTo give me companyYour voice came along

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.