The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.

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.

Your days are only important if you decide to make them important.

Home isn’t four walls, it’s the people you’re with.

Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.

What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice.

A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice!

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.

Crushes are wonderful-they make you feel like you're two years old, and you say the stupidest things.

Every little thing wants to be loved.