You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

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.

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

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I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

The most wretched have yet hope.

It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth.

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.

He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.