Who wins a... competition [between two traits] is massively context sensitive.

I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats. Surely, surely, no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.

Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions.

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

The content of a thought depends on its external relations; on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the way that it is related to other thoughts.

If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.

What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial.

They say if it's too good to be true, it usually is..... Unless it's me.

I have a choice: Do I want to align with the GREATEST VISION OF MYSELF or Do I want to align with my EXCUSES?

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

I can't relate to these haters, my enemies never made it.

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.