Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

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.

The difference between your friend and your best friend is that your friend asks, ‘Are you are ok?’ and your best friend asks, ‘Do you want to talk about it?

During Christmas, open your heart with love to appreciate the beauty of life and all the presents that you have received from the earth.

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.