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

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.

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

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.

Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

The ghost of the heart of manred Cain And the more murderous brain Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death Of his mother Earth, and tore Her womb, to know the place where he was conceived.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.

I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.