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

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

The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

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

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.