Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge