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

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

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.

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.

No more shooting from anyone. Or I am going to get seriously cranky with everyone. Suddenly, and violently and all over the place.

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

I am not going to play the victim.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception

It is not peace that I seek, but life.

My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.