Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

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.

Where there is great love, there are always happiness and joy.

...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.

Less is Moor.

Patience includes perseverance—the ability to bear up under weariness, strain, and persecution when doing the work of the Lord.

Things past redress are now with me past care.

There's always a source for humor.

When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.

Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.