Thomas Nagel Quotes
Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.
Quotes to Explore
-
Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
-
I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
-
Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
-
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
-
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
-
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
-
Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
-
Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
-
I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'
-
You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.
-
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
-
I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
-
I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.
-
What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.
-
I'm playing every day. I still want to win.
-
Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.
-
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
-
It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.
-
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
-
I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want.
-
In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.
-
There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.
-
Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.
