You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

Love is heartbeat of life.

If we lose all our sweet memories, it means we are dead even if we are alive!

When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs.

American election was really personal for Putin because he believed that Clinton is a personal enemy. He genuinely believed she was behind the Moscow protests in 2012, 2011.

Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped me the most.

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

If you spend a thing you can not have it. [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]

You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.