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

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

To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.

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

Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

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.