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Psychology Quotes by Thomas Nagel
- I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.
- equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any…
- To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how…
- A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
- A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
- The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical…
- Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it…
- The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual…
- Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first…
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- I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine,… — Roger Bannister
- The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would… — John Desmond Bernal
- Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. — Theodor Adorno
- Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology. — James Carville
- No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. — Anton Chekhov
- One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. — Noam Chomsky
- Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl… — Tori Amos
- I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it… — Libby Trickett
- There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and… — Picabo Street
- Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar