Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.
Willard Van Orman QuineTo call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less artificial expedients. Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built.
Willard Van Orman QuineI have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.
Willard Van Orman Quine