Episodes Quote by Thomas Nagel Download Open image “We are an episode between two oblivions.” — Thomas Nagel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Episodes Oblivion Two
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“This is just how life is supposed to be: terrible and brief and ending in—if you’re lucky—oblivion.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Oblivion is something unique, an entertainment experience unlike anything I had seen before. I decided this was a project I really wanted to work… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“A comprehensively reductive conception is favored by the belief that the propensity for the development of organisms with a subjective view must have been… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
It isn't just that I don't believe in God, and naturally, hope there is no God. I don't want there to be a God;… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“In speaking of the fear of religion, I don’t mean to refer to the entirely reasonable hostility toward certain established religions and religious institutions,… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“I am drawn to a fourth alternative, natural teleology, or teleological bias, as an account of the existence of the biological possibilities on which… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world. No conception of… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
Walter [Hill] basically brought me into that ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and it was one of the great experiences. It was extraordinary stuff. He wrote… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo… — Ricky Van Veen Copy Share Image
I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences dont like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and… — Leslie Moonves Copy Share Image
I'm a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan; I would be really annoyed if anyone told me anything about what was going to happen in the… — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image