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

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.

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.

I try not to remember them but very often memories force themselves on my consciousness

Action is what will produce your desired results.

Truth cannot be changed. When all the flowers of the world are dead, there will still be a true thing that is a flower.

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

Truth cannot be structured or confined.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.

It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun, I love changing up my hair.

The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.