I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

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.

I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.

If monkey became a man, then a man can become a hero.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was one constant good: she did not change.

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.

I think there are pieces of me you've never seen.