Quotes by : Thomas Nagel

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

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

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

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

Nature is such as to give rise to conscious beings with minds and it is such as to be comprehensible....

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

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

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

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

The human will to believe is inexhaustible