I hate them! I repudiate them! I think that the last important French philosopher was Descartes. Heidegger is ghastly;he is like an elephant's fart. By contrast, in England we have Bertrand Russell, Peter Strawson, Stuart Hampshire . . . The job of philosophy is not to find out the meaning of life, or our relationship to the larger metaphysical principles of the universe; it is finding out the relationship of the mind to the world. How the world is represented in the mind; how do we come to have knowledge; what do we mean by certainty. These are the only things about which you can ask questions. I am interested in problems for which you can foresee a solution; questions to which there is possibly an answer.

philosophie fuer die hoehere verwaltungslaufbahn. verstaendlich dann, dass an manchen britischen universitaeten auch die "kritik der reinen vernunft" im fachbereich "europaeische literatur" gelesen wird.