I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

Highly technical philosophical arguments of the sort many philosophers favor are absent here. That is because I have a prior problem to deal with. I have learned that arguments, no matter how watertight, often fall on deaf ears. I am myself the author of arguments that I consider rigorous and unanswerable but that are often not such much rebutted or even dismissed as simply ignored.