Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?