Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
Source: Good Faith and Bad, in Sunday Telegraph (London, 21 April 1974; repr. in Truth and Lies in Literature, 1986), review of Hazel E. Barnes, Sartre.
-- Stephen Vizinczey, (Jan 0 1933-____), Hungary novelist, writer, producer; He is best known for his first novel, his first novel, In Praise of Older Women.