A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.
Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all.
Dolphins frequently leap above the water surface. One reason for this behaviour could be that, when travelling longer distances, jumping can save the dolphins energy as there is less friction while in the air.
All attention is introspection.
As a first-order approximation, I would say that phenomenality is "availability for introspective attention": Consciousness is a property of all those mental contents to which you can in principle direct your attention.
In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly perceive" that your wife is cheating you, or you can become aware of the possibility that maybe it is you who has a problem, that your "immediate" emotional representation of social reality might actually be a misrepresentation.
As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.
Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying
If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it. . . yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.
Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?