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.

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.

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.

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.

He's totally caught me, and I'm never letting him toss me back.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

I was also in love with the English language.

The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

I heard this theory once that love means your subconscious is attracted to someone else’s subconscious.

In choosing not to be a beast, I discovered my humanity. I became autodidactic, self-educated - a critical thinker.

Stop dragging my heart around.

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly