To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

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.

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.

Every new friend is a new journey, through a brand new road, toward a brand new mysterious heart.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

Being home is like a vacation to me, so I'm trying to get my home together.