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.

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.

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.

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

Lupita thought that people who didn’t dance were selfish and lonely.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

The enjoyment has been diminishing. Now, there's no question that it's sort of fun to get high.

I have always loved you.

I think freestyling is very important. That's the key to the game, if you wanna be in the MC crowd, freestyling is important.

Take your faith out of the lies! Free your faith, and you will see how powerful you become.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.