"I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, consciousness, the self, the origin of values, and so forth."

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Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

Patricia Churchland

#Self Quotes #Analysis Quotes #Assumption Quotes

“We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.”
“We sell to an affluent demographic, so it is important for us to project a professional image.”
“I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.”
“I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.”

Source : Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.242, Laurel Leaf
“A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.”
“I know that you are a stone, you do not cause benefit or harm; and if it were not that I had seen AllÃ¢hâ€™s MessengerÂ (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam)Â kiss you, I would never have kissed you.”
“The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.”
“When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.”

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