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.

If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.