The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.
With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.
A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.
Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the normative claims which (many) naturalists wish to make in epistemology. I don't think this is right about Quine, but I'm certain it's not right about my own view. To the extent that I can show that talk of knowledge is firmly rooted within empirical theories where it plays an important explanatory role, I thereby demonstrate its naturalistic credentials.
We want to put sportsmanship back in the equation.
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
I'm pretty equal opportunity when it comes to issues to joke about.