Thomas Nagel Quotes

I do not find theism any more credible than materialism as a comprehensive world view. My interest i...

The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding thing...

I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific wor...

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

If we tried to rely entirely on reason and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse – a...

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers th...

The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in t...

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

The human will to believe is inexhaustible

The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choos...

Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside

The existence of conscious minds and their access to the evident truth of ethics and methematics are...

I am drawn to a fourth alternative, natural teleology, or teleological bias, as an account of the ex...

The widespread willingness to rely on thermonuclear bombs as the ultimate weapon displays a cavalier...