Thomas Nagel Quotes

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

Thomas Nagel

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• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • War

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Great
  • Wine
  • Nothing

• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Care
  • Achievement
  • Act

• It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • School
  • Fun
  • See

• These women, capable of the most sublime emotions, of the tenderest sympathies, were openmouthed and screaming. They wanted to live, they were helpless, likes rats in a trap, and they screamed.

  

  Jack London
  • Women
  • Live

• The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Heart
  • May

• It is a wonderful but daunting task that has fallen on me to say few words by way of opening this Forum, the greatest concourse of women (joined by a few brave men!) that has ever gathered on our planet. I want to try and voice some of the common hopes which firmly unite us in all our splendid diversity.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Words

• It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • True

• Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Childhood

• Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

  

  Bjork
  • Interesting
  • Rock

• The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • God
  • Daily
  • Discipline

• These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Gay

• There's so much nostalgia for music from the past.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Music
  • Past

• With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Model

• I have no problem with television as a genre.

  

  James Purefoy

• I want to make my mum's life and my life safe.

  

  Martine McCutcheon
  • Life

• Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Names
  • Class
  • Terrible

• We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Way
  • Situation
  • Perception

• Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Men
  • True
  • Faith

• As a business owner, what's the sense in having droves of followers and connections if you aren't able to turn them into paying customers?

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Business

• A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • Reality
  • Take

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

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Reality
  • Accounts
  • Tendencies