There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.

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.

Life is a great mystery.

I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist. I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor.I'd rather play Hurk than go to work.Hurk? Hurk? What's Hurk?I don't know, but it must be better than work.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.

As daughters of God we are each unique and different in our circumstances and experiences. And yet our part matters—because we matter.

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

No one can make me cry Make me laugh Make me smile Or drive me mad like she does

A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.