A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

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.

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

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.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature.

the more he learned, the more he realized that there is too much to learn in anyone’s lifetime.

The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea.

Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

All my jewelry has stories.

It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend.

Might have gone further and have fared worse.