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

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.

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.

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.

Knowledge is a sage’s best friend

Science. They were all the science experiments of a maniacal government bent on controlling the universe.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.

Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.

Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.