We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

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.

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

If you can't make a mark make a dent.

Faith gives me the ability to rise above anything, because what is true in the spiritual realm is forever true. It cannot be denied.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.

Nothing outside of my child is important

I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy.