"Leading a human life is a full-time occupation,……" — Thomas Nagel
"Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern."
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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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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance,…
— David Bailey
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My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could…
— Javier Bardem
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I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
— Wendell Berry
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I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
— Jeff Bingaman
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
— Aeschylus
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What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what…
— Niels Bohr
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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality.…
— Bono
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Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with…
— George W. Bush
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