Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.

When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori.

Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.

I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.

There isn't a formal definition of success.

A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy.

The amount of money you owe doesn't matter

If you can't pray as you want to pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

If you want God to act SUDDENLY then you’re gonna have to pursue him PATIENTLY!

True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.