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Take encouragement from how far you've come, not how far you have left to go. — Debra Searle

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and "orders" are in fact only of archaeological interest. — Idries Shah

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality. — John Searle

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — William Shakespeare

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us. — Jerry Seinfeld

But it was never possible to forget that Searle was in a room. Why? she kept asking herself. Or rather, why not? — Josephine Tey

To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high. — Billy Graham

Imagining and visualising the situation prepares you for any challenge — Debra Searle

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms. — John Searle

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on. — John Searle

There is no success or failure in Nature. — John Searle

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine. — Clive James

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer. — John Searle

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness. — John Searle

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence. — John Searle

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism — John Searle

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around. — Robert Boswell

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed. — John Searle

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents? — John Searle

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. — John Searle

till dawn are we. — Rudyard Kipling

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business. — John Searle

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness. — John Searle

Was it John Searle who called Jacques Derrida the sort of philosopher who gives bullshit a bad name? — David Markson

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself. — John Rogers Searle

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others. — John Searle

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. — Mary Renault

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem. — John Searle

Akrasia [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France. — John Searle

Bugs make you ill Aqua, not the cold. — T.L. Searle

Enjoy the present, plot the progress, you'll still reach the goal — Debra Searle

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places. — John Searle

The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery ... is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind. — Pope John Paul II