"Life may be not only meaningless but absurd." — Thomas Nagel

"Life may be not only meaningless but absurd."

— Thomas Nagel

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42 Quotes by Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to… — Honore de Balzac
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. — Wendell Berry
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience… — Annie Besant
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our… — Bono
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of… — Samuel Butler
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help… — David Byrne
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out… — Lord Byron
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them… — Albert Camus
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel de Cervantes

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