aim to use intuitions as evidence

could be said for observation Intuitions are not wholly reliable, but also in the fact that we know so little about them

intuition is an expression of tacit knowledge.

intuition’s primary role is to understand or apprehend the salient features of a case – in the form of a judgement – and a secondary (indirect) role as evidence for or against philosophical theories.

a revival of the use of intuitions was prompted by Chomsky’s linguistics

a spontaneous judgement

If you drop a line in the theatre, you can usually find a way round it. But you can't do that as easily on television - you're in the hands of too many people.

I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

Listen and be led.

Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

There are no birds in last year's nest.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

I am the original... Those are my disciples.

What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.

With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.

I have interviewed Hugo Chavez, Tim McVeigh, and hundreds of fascinating characters in South America, where I have lived for the past 15 years.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

Nothing really changes: the individual's ability to project his message or throw his weight around remains minuscule.

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.