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

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.

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

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.

It is only the brave who win life’s rewards. Those who don’t overcome their fears are destined to fail at even the least things.

You possess a divine strength to fulfill your dream.

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

Hope is the pin-pricked light that tears through the fabric of our dark world.

I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.

It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

I play every game like it's going to be my last.

Chatter about art is almost always useless.