My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business
You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.
"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.
Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.