"The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the mind works. Those philosophers took a stand on all sorts of questions which nowadays we would classify as questions of psychology, and their views about psychological questions shaped their views about epistemology, as well they should have."

-- Hilary Kornblith

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“We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait (as we have conceived it), in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.”

Source : Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.117, Pan Macmillan
“The results will be very good.”
“If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.”
“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.”
“You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.”
“There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.”
“In general, I go to see the stuff that for me is, "Thank God for that actor, he's doing something that I never imagined; thank God for this filmmaker, because if this person didn't exist, this movie wouldn't exist." That's why I go to the movies. That, to me, is what's so exciting about this movie.”
“Just think - guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.”

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