The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

To trace the development of mind from earliest times ... requires ... not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.