"In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a lot of empirical work on the various psychological mechanisms by way of which the first-person point of view is produced, and, when we understand this, I believe, we can stop romanticising and mythologising the first-person perspective."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Hilary Kornblith

#Believe Quotes #Views Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.”
“I like guys who are confident but not cocky, who are comfortable with themselves, and who know what they want.”

Source : "Meet Mischa". Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. April 4, 2004.
“Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a born poet, and a born writer. The Canoe is just the start of what I hope to be a long idyllic journey through the love and soul of the human heart.”
“Don't deceive me. Never leave me.”
“God save us from people who mean well.”

Source : Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.261, Penguin Books India
“In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.”
“Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.”
“While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.”

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