Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

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.

Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story

The world and humanity were created by God and are therefore divinely inspired and intrinsically holy.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring.

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.