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What Sort Of World Can We Prepare For Our Great Grandchildren?

As Long As We Try To Project From The Relative And Conditioned To The Absolute And Unconditioned, We Shall Keep The Pendulum Swinging Between Dogmatism And Skepticism. The Only Way To Stop This Increasingly Tiresome Pendulum Swing Is To Change Our Conception Of What Philosophy Is Good For. But That Is Not Something Which Will Be Accomplished By A Few Neat Arguments. It Will Be Accomplished, If It Ever Is, By A Long, Slow Process Of Cultural Change - That Is To Say, Of Change In Common Sense, Changes In The Intuitions Available For Being Pumped Up By Philosophical Arguments.

The Most Important Advance That The West Has Yet Made Is To Develop A Secularist Moral Tradition

If The Body Had Been Easier To Understand, Nobody Would Have Thought That We Had A Mind.

Philosophy Makes Progress Not By Becoming More Rigorous But By Becoming More Imaginative.