Mentalese Quotes & Sayings
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We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened. — Pete Du Pont

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them. — Adam Smith

You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection. — Marianne Williamson

Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking. — Bob Hope

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything. — George Clooney

There is no gift more great than love. — James Branch Cabell

Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome. Whether Canterbury is Anglican or not is immaterial. We are Anglicans. They are the Church of England. — Peter Akinola

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself. — Thomas Carlyle

People do not think in English or Chinese or Apache; they think in a language of thought. This language of thought probably looks a bit like all these languagesBut compared with any given language, mentalese must be richer in some ways and simpler in others. — Steven Pinker

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude ... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die. — Theodore Roosevelt

... and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder. For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were. — L. Frank Baum

If the Mentalese story about the content of thought is true, then there couldn't be a private language argument. Good. That explains why there isn't one. (In Critical Condition, p. 68) — Jerry A. Fodor

This is the pre-verbal language that linguists call Mentalese. Hardly a language, more a matrix of shifting patterns, consolidating and compressing meaning in fractions of a second, and blending it inseparably with its distinctive emotional hue ... So that when a flash of red streaks in across his left peripheral vision ... it already has the quality of an idea ... unexpected and dangerous, but entirely his, and not of the world beyond himself. — Ian McEwan

And that's how we live: wandering endlessly, concentrically outward, seeking in others a kindling spark of the love which has long lain, dormant, dark, unstoked in our own deepest souls. — Jordan Sonnenblick

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
A good mouth-filling oath. — William Shakespeare

Nationalism: the love of tribal fictions inspired by the hatred of social realities. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski