Quotes from Ernest Sosa

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.

In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to the subject's competence.

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

There isn't a formal definition of success.

There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.

When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.