"What is it like to be a bat?……" — 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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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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