There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

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

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

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

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.

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