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Many people ... go through life with hardly an original thought; gravitate from one pleasure or amusement to another; gain a livelihood doing what someone else has assigned; flee boredom as best they can; marry and beget children; and then, without having made the slightest difference of any unique significance, die and decay like any animal.

— Richard Taylor Restoring Pride: The Lost Virtue of Our Age (1995)

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Indeed, it would probably be true to say that the fruit of metaphysical thought is not knowledge but understanding.

Metaphysics (1963)

I shall maintain that there simply is no such thing as philosophical knowledge, nor any philosophical way of knowing anything, and defend the humble point that philosophy is indeed the love of wisdom.

Dare to be Wise (1968)

Both determinism and simple indeterminism are loaded with difficulties, and no one who has thought much on them can affirm either of them without some embarrassment.

Metaphysics (1963)

For philosophy, it is supposed by vast numbers of students and teachers of the subject, has for its goal philosophical knowledge, and indeed, even certain knowledge. It is presupposed, therefore, that there is such a thing as philosophical knowledge, and there are even men who think themselves the possessors of at least some of it.

Dare to be Wise (1968)

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Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.

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