A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

I cant believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to.

The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934.

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

I will stumble, I will fall down, but I will not be moved; I will make mistakes, I will face heartache, but I will not be moved.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love.

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.