I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

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

If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

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.

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

If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.