If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.

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.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does.

This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.