Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats. Surely, surely, no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.

Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions.

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

The content of a thought depends on its external relations; on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the way that it is related to other thoughts.

If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.

Who wins a... competition [between two traits] is massively context sensitive.

The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.

If we find ourselves in unfamiliar circumstance, what do we do? We ought to keep calm and pray.

Deny yourself nothing in life.

You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.

Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.