On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats. Surely, surely, no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.

Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions.

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

The content of a thought depends on its external relations; on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the way that it is related to other thoughts.

If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

Who wins a... competition [between two traits] is massively context sensitive.

The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.

Blessed are souls with thankful heart.

... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.

God is a politician; so is the devil.

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.

Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.

It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.

I'm a bit of a mummy's boy.