Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

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.

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

Stupidity, once it overcomes its initial state of inertia, is sustained by its own momentum.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

Let all Arminians know: we have as high an esteem for faith as any men in the world, but yet we will not rob Christ to clothe faith.

Givers of great dinners know few enemies.

That's another interesting thing about music: It can mean anything.

Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it.

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done