Famous quotes containing the words free, agent and/or signed:
“The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesnt help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
“... in doing our psychology, we want to attribute mental states fully opaquely because its the fully opaque reading which tells us what the agent has in mind, and its what the agent has in mind that causes his behavior.”
—Jerry Alan Fodor (b. 1935)
“I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it. And I said, But, Daddy, no ones going to see it! And he said, Yeah, but I know its there. So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.”
—Toni Morrison (b. 1931)