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“It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts nonetheless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.”

Want Believe Said States Seems Language Animal Doors Dog Masters Theory Baby Speech Ordinary Philosophical Obvious Deny Milk Infant

Author:John Searle

“I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take this risk because I am now in my eighth decade, and the changing opinions of men scarcely impress me any more; the thoughts of the old masters are of greater value to me than the philosophical prejudices of the Western mind.”

Knows Men Mind I Can Matter Values Opinion Greater Risk Masters Prejudice Philosophical Western Decades Uncertain Impress

Author:Carl Jung

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”

Source: A Mortal Antipathy

“I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.”

Want Giving Feels Facts Religious My Own Christianity Emotional Masters Type Opposites Philosophical Conversion Gave Up

Author:C. S. Lewis

“What worries you, masters you.”

Life Inspirational Worry Courage Masters Empowerment Philosophical Adversity Perseverance

Author:John Locke

“May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.”

Wells May Shows Justice Masters Duty Philosophical Owners Recompense

Author:Seneca the Younger

“It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.”

May Self Passion Masters Philosophical Hunger Approval Self Approval

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”

Inspiration Masters Philosophical Servant Owners Plato

Book:Laws

Source: Laws

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

Men Motivational Motivation Self Esteem Masters Discipline Philosophical Self Control Self Mastery Chakra Kwanzaa

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.”

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Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion