p.17 mind and body do not differ as two substances differ. 'Mind' and 'body' are words used to pick out different ranges of attributes of the same substance.

p.29 as persons, while we may consciously will the end, in many cases the means for the realization of an envisaged or declared end is an embodied skill, which as active agents we merely exercise. 'Now I know how to go on' as Wittgenstein taught, is not a description of some state of mind. An interesting variant on this theme has been proposed by Streets-Johnstone (1981: 400) in the idea of dance improvisations as acts of thinking in their own right. 'In such thinking, movement is not a medium by which thoughts emerge but rather, the thoughts themselves, significations made flesh, so to speak.' She compares two ways in which a person can think actions - '...thinking in movement and thoughts of movement are two quite different experiences.' [JLJ - what people might not realize (speaking as someone who has done some ballroom dancing) is that one dance pattern will call to mind another at its conclusion, which in turn will call to mind another, much like thoughts. The leader might take an unexpected motion from his partner as a starting point for yet another pattern, and so on. A seed idea leads to continuous motion in a way much like an initial thought leads to continuous thinking.]

p.109 All skilled action, according to Merleau-Ponty, is characterized by the concentration of attention on that to which it is directed... It is in terms of possible practical action that our sense of being-in-the-world is constituted. Thus material objects are conceived first and foremost as manipulanda.

p.137 Psychologically speaking, to be human is to be the kind of creature who uses theories to order and so to create the forms of experience.

p.284 from the dark foundations of the private-individual area there emerge the thrusts of biological imperatives to be clothed in the civilized garb of acceptable interpretations.