The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.