“Normative mind tends to be naive.”

“To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.”

“No conceptually regimented and normatively informed theory of mental disorder can be devised without taking philosophy of mind seriously and knowing something about this subject area of philosophy and of such topics as consciousness, Intentionality, personal identity, the mind/body problem and rationality.”

“Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information more mindfully. Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.”

“With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.”

“The next morning the first thought that came to my mind was “Calculus of love”. When love tends to infinity, thinko tends to zero.”