Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

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

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

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.

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.

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.