Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism.