88 Quotes by Thomas Nagel

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

We will soon start moving toward a release mindset. That's new for the cable industry. There'll be a new release every few months. This will be a learning process.

We don't think of this as cable operators pushing a cell phone service. We want to leverage what Sprint has outside the home and create services and features so that consumers can take whatever media they have with them.

I'm actually surprised how well we've done. We've made more progress in the first 100 days of this one than any other joint venture I've been involved in.

If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.

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; I don't want the universe to be like that.

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical--that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So this reductive account can also be described as a form of panpsychism: all the elements of the physical world are also mental....