Quotes by : Thomas Nagel

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

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

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

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

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