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

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.

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.

In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to the subject's competence.

Inspiration in the wee hours of the morning is the golden ticket

When you love nature, it always loves you back with the fragrance of flowers.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

I knew I could never give up on music. Completely devoid of any religious or iconic context, I felt like music was handed down to me - this is what I was going to do.

I always think the best way to dress is when the person notices you first and the dress after.

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.