Harman, Gilbert

"We are responsible not only for our actions but for the reasoning that underlies them."

"Truth is discovered through dialogue, not monologue."

"The freedom to be wrong is a necessary condition for the possibility of being right."

"Our beliefs are tools for navigating reality, not mirrors of reality itself."

"Wisdom involves knowing when to act and when to refrain from action."

"We become more rational by examining our irrationality, not by ignoring it."

"The deepest understanding comes from recognizing what we do not understand."

"Moral progress is possible because we can recognize moral failure when we encounter it."

"The purpose of reason is not to eliminate uncertainty but to live well within it."

"We find our truest selves through our most honest encounters with others."

"The greatest teachers are those who show us how much more there is to learn."

"The challenge of philosophy is to show how knowledge is possible at all."

"We cannot simply assume that our intuitions about meaning are reliable guides to truth."

"Language shapes how we think about the world more than we typically realize."

"Moral disagreement need not reflect deep confusion; it often reflects genuine value differences."

"The concept of intentionality bridges the gap between mind and world."

"We must distinguish between what we believe and how those beliefs are justified."

"Paradoxes teach us that our ordinary thinking patterns sometimes lead us astray."

"The problem of other minds remains central to understanding consciousness."

"Convention plays a larger role in language than nativists typically acknowledge."

"Thought experiments reveal implicit assumptions in our conceptual frameworks."

"Logical consistency is necessary but not sufficient for truth."

"We should be skeptical of our first-person access to our own mental contents."

"The meaning of a sentence depends partly on the context in which it is used."

"Naive realism about perception cannot survive careful philosophical scrutiny."

"Rationality requires coherence among one's beliefs and desires."

"The nature of reference remains one of philosophy's deepest puzzles."

"We often confuse correlation with causation in everyday reasoning."

"Linguistic convention is a matter of degree, not kind."

"The self is perhaps less unified than our ordinary experience suggests."