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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It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.
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I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.
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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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Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.
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What is success? It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way.
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..art is made by man. His own figure is the center of all art.. .Therefore one must begin with the man himself.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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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.
