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

Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.

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.

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

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

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.

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