"Still, people have a lot of obvious and important things that other species do not–speech, rationality, culture and t…"

"Philosophy, like speaking prose, is something have to do all our lives, well or badly, whether we notice it or not."

"Other areas were being mapped by anthropologists, who seemed to have some interest in my problem, but who were inclin…"

"Consideration of motives brings up the matter of free will. I had better say once, that my project of taking animal c…"

"But understanding and explaining motives does not compromise freedom; nor does even predicting acts necessarily do so…"

"The notion that we "have a nature" far from threatening the concept of freedom, is absolutely essential to it. If we …"

"Every age has its pet contradictions. Thirty years ago we used to accept Marx and Freud together, and then wonder, li…"

"The future will not "be with" anybody in the sense of falling to them as a conquest. The need for many different meth…"

"Selection does not work by cutthroat competition between individuals, but by favouring whatever behavior is useful to…"

"We are not just rather like animals; we are animals. Our difference from other species may be striking, but compariso…"