In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.

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.

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.

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.