"If I thought that everything I did was……" — Thomas Nagel
"If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped."
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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.
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Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for…
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I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.
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equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded…
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To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for…
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A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
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A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act…
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The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of…
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Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip…
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The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this…
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Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said…
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There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
— Georges Bataille
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most…
— Alfred Adler
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