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Thomas Nagel Quote: “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 first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.”

51. “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 first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.”

— Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel Quote: “Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.”

52. “Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.”

— Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel Quote: “The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future – though all three, the consciousness, the knowledge, and the choice, are dispersed over a vast crowd of beings, acting both individually and collectively.”

53. “The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future – though all three, the consciousness, the knowledge, and the choice, are dispersed over a vast crowd of beings, acting both individually and collectively.”

— Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel Quote: “Objectivity of whatever kind is not the test of reality. It is just one way of understanding reality.”

54. “Objectivity of whatever kind is not the test of reality. It is just one way of understanding reality.”

— Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel Quote: “If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.”

55. “If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.”

— Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel Quote: “The human will to believe is inexhaustible.”

56. “The human will to believe is inexhaustible.”

— Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel Quote: “Theism pushes the quest for intelligibility outside the world. If God exists, he is not part of the natural order but a free agent not governed by natural laws. He may act partly by creating a natural order, but whatever he does directly cannot be part of that order.”

57. “Theism pushes the quest for intelligibility outside the world. If God exists, he is not part of the natural order but a free agent not governed by natural laws. He may act partly by creating a natural order, but whatever he does directly cannot be part of that order.”

— Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel Quote: “Our idea of the things that exist is just our idea of what we can observe.”

58. “Our idea of the things that exist is just our idea of what we can observe.”

— Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel Quote: “The sum total of a person’s experiences, desires and knowledge, his hereditary constitution, the social circumstances and the nature of the choice facing him, together with other factors that we may not know about, all combine to make a particular action in the circumstances inevitable.”

59. “The sum total of a person’s experiences, desires and knowledge, his hereditary constitution, the social circumstances and the nature of the choice facing him, together with other factors that we may not know about, all combine to make a particular action in the circumstances inevitable.”

— Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel Quote: “Theism does not offer a sufficiently substantial explanation of our capacities, and naturalism does not offer a sufficiently reassuring one.”

60. “Theism does not offer a sufficiently substantial explanation of our capacities, and naturalism does not offer a sufficiently reassuring one.”

— Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel Quote: “It is not enough to be able to think that if there are logical truths, natural selection might very well have given me the capacity to recognize them. That cannot be my ground for trusting my reason, because even that thought implicitly relies on reason in a prior way.”

61. “It is not enough to be able to think that if there are logical truths, natural selection might very well have given me the capacity to recognize them. That cannot be my ground for trusting my reason, because even that thought implicitly relies on reason in a prior way.”

— Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel Quote: “Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside.”

62. “Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside.”

— Thomas Nagel

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