Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.

I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle theory.

The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.

The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not.

At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.

I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to the problem is an error.

Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

Here at great expense, ' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.