mind

"A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, “You look very unhappy”; whereupon I answered fiercely, “How can one look happ…"

"All the people are free to say what they want to say, but we have to learn, there’s always limits. You have to respect the privacy of the others; you have to respect the other opinion. Because during …"

"People do what they do by choice, so I don’t really know it’s a matter of people being comfortable in front of the camera. I think it’s a matter of doing the work that’s available to you and then stri…"

"But despite this selfless service—of these two officers and countless others like them across the country—in some American communities, people view the police not as allies, but as antagonists, and th…"

"Solutions require thinking through a series of interrelated steps or stages, analyzing a number of rules at each point, and always keeping in mind conclusions reached at earlier points."

"Popular thought, supported by desires common to all human beings, readily accepts the view that mind is essentially different from matter, that its laws are in every respect different from the laws of…"

"The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes a man."

"A man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think not blamable."

"Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals."

"Y'know, every time in America some guy gets caught cheating, every media outlet does the same story: "Why Do Men Cheat?" Oh, take a wild fucking guess, would you? I think you're over-thinking this. Th…"

"For if this country... were to make its defense program a function of its domestic employment situation, it would become impossible to conduct a constructive and well-thought out foreign policy or to …"

"I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place!"

"I type and think at 90 words a minute."

"I am more acquainted with Mr. Pettit's mode of doing business than I am with Mr. Cox's; but I think the public under great obligations to the for mer for his method and economy."

"L i g h t . . . light, wrote T. S. Eliot, visible reminder of invisible light."

"Let me put it this way, I think he is very eager not to upset the racists who like him. Too eager."

"Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit."

"The bow must be strung and unstrung . . . there must be time also for the unconscious thinking which comes to the busy man in his play."

"Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it."

"Thank you for your letter and for the enclosure which I return herewith. I have been wondering whether there is any means of preventing the confusion between you and me, and I half-thought that we mig…"