Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

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

every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.