We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a… - Marvin Minsky

Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves — apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge — and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers — but not to us as psychologists — because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study.

I maintain that attitudes do really precede propositions, feelings come before facts.

Hearing music is like viewing scenery and... when we hear good music our minds react in very much the same way they do when we see things.