Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

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.

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.

Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman's fire.

As relates to life on Earth, the fine structure constant determines how solar radiation is absorbed in our atmosphere, and it also applies to how photosynthesis works in plants.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

I look like Julian Clary on steroids.

The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.