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The human will to believe is inexhaustible


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

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



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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.

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.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.



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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.





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