"...if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and my believing is causally responsible for my saying . . . If none of that is literally true, then practically everything I believe about anything is false and it's the end of the world."

-- Jerry Fodor

#Believe Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Mind Quotes

“much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ...”
“Of two evils choose the prettier.”
“Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.”
“When I came into boxing, when it was more out of control, no fighters got an opportunity to fight. I came in: everybody got an opportunity to make a living in America.”
“Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.”
“Women think that men don't talk about their feelings with guys. We do talk to friends about relationships, but it's succinct - 10 minutes, then we move on.”
“With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting mainly of neutrons. Such a star may possess a very small radius and an extremely high density. As neutrons can be packed much more closely than ordinary nuclei and electrons, the gravitational packing energy in a cold neutron star may become very large, and under certain conditions may far exceed the ordinary nuclear packing fractions...”
“In war there is no substitute for victory.”

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