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 selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.

We are an episode between two oblivions.

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 impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.

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

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

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.