Thomas Nagel World Quotations
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- All World Quotes
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Shakespeare
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Marianne Williamson
- Rumi
- Albert Einstein
- Bertrand Russell
- Henry David Thoreau
- Paulo Coelho
- Swami Vivekananda
- Haruki Murakami
- C S Lewis
- Oscar Wilde
- Gilbert K Chesterton
- Neil Gaiman
- Pope Francis
- Michael Jackson
- George Bernard Shaw
- Hillary Clinton
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Elements Quotes
Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical--that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So this reductive account can also be described as a form of panpsychism: all the elements of the physical world are also mental....
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Views Quotes
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.
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Wake Up Quotes
The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form that exists both individually and intersubjectively. It was originally a biological evolutionary process, and in our species it has become a collective cultural process as well. Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
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Giving Quotes
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.
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Passion Quotes
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.