"Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really……" — Thomas Nagel

"Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable."

— Thomas Nagel

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42 Quotes by Thomas Nagel

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Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for…
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…
To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for…
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…
The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of…
Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip…
The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this…
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said…
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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