Philosophy Makes Progress Not By

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.

There Is Nothing To Be Known About Anything Except An Initially Large, And Forever Expandable, Web Of Relations To Other Things. Everything That Can Serve As A Term Of Relation Can Be Dissolved Into Another Set Of Relations, And So On For Ever. There Are, So To Speak, Relations All The Way Down, All The Way Up, And All The Way Out In Every Direction: You Never Reach Something Which Is Not Just One More Nexus Of Relations.

To Say That Truth Is Not Out There Is Simply To Say That Where There Are No Sentences There Is No Truth, That Sentences Are Elements Of Human Languages, And That Languages Are Human Creations.~ The Suggestion That Truth~ Is Out There Is A Legacy Of An Age In Which The World Was Seen As The Creation Of A Being Who Had A Language His Own.

The World Is Out There, But Descriptions Of The World Are Not.

If I Had To Lay Bets, My Bet Would Be That Everything Is Going To Go To Hell, But, You Know, What Else Have We Got Except Hope?