Thomas Nagel Quotes
fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.
Quotes to Explore
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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I think the Aussieness got beaten out of me back in the States.
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
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We got the Hawks I aint talking about the Peach state
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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No more slave States and no more slave territory.
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I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.
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an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.
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The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
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Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.
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I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.
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I was very productive as a senator for my state.
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Higher thought forms trump lower ones. In the presence of a high frequency of human consciousness, all lower thought forms ultimately drop of their own dead weight.
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One misunderstandin g is that if you do the right thing, then life's storms will stop. If you do the right thing, the storms actually get bigger. This is because they know they can't blow you down like they used to, and now it's going to take a lot more energy to find out if you are conscious.
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Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a man lives a weakend, impotent existence, perhaps even becoming even sexually impotent or prone to mechanical and disinterested sex.
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Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.
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Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.
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fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.
