As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.

Retribution is really a stone age concept.

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.

The self is not a thing, but a process.

Subjectivity means to catch yourself in the act.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.

Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

I've married a few people I shouldn't have but haven't we all?

I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.

I thought Europe was a country?

Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.

My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.