Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us..

The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical accou….

If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say..

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up..

Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical - that is, capable of combining into me….

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death..

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd..

If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously..

I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. I….

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

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..

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless..

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself..

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural….

If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and….

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external….

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will..

Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the k….

The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective,….

The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of ….