The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

God doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and whatever moral progress we make in our knowledge or whatever progress we make in our moral knowledge is not coming really from religion. It's coming from the very hard work really of moral philosophy, of trying to ground our moral reasonings.

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.