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Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.
— Richard Hofstadter
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
— Douglas Hofstadter
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.
— Marvin Minsky
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him ...
— Richard Hofstadter
All meaning comes from analogies.
— Douglas Hofstadter
Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
I wish my wish would not be granted!
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
Is my coitus whimsically inventive?
— Chuck Lorre
We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
A mirror mirroring a mirror
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
I would like to understand things better, but I don't want to understand them perfectly.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.
— Richard Hofstadter
Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level
— Douglas Hofstadter
Get action, do things; be sane," he once raved, "don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody: get action.
— Richard Hofstadter
Reductionism is merciless.
— Douglas Hofstadter
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
— Richard Hofstadter
There are those who will immediately be drawn to the idea of pattern-seeking, and
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
Irrationality is the square root of all evil
— Douglas Hofstadter
Despite the Cooper/Hofstadter papers on the subject,
— Jodi Taylor
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
— Douglas Hofstadter
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.
— Richard Hofstadter
It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
— Douglas Hofstadter
I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
— Douglas Hofstadter
The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.
— Douglas Hofstadter
No reference is truly direct - every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
— Douglas Hofstadter
Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.
— Douglas Hofstadter
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers' rigidity.
— Douglas Hofstadter
I am the thought you are now thinking.
— Douglas Hofstadter
Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.
— Richard Hofstadter
Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.
— Richard Hofstadter
We are all egocentric, and what is realest to each of us, in the end, is ourself.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
— Richard Hofstadter
No, no - I think about thinking
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury ...
— Richard Hofstadter
As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.
— Richard Hofstadter
A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments.
— Richard Hofstadter
It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done ...
— Douglas Hofstadter