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It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel
I was born for a controversial world, and I cannot escape my destiny. John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
— Thomas Nagel
Human destiny is an episode between two oblivions.
— Ernest Nagel
Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel
He had to pause for his usual misgivings.
— Paul C. Nagel
I do not find theism any more credible than materialism as a comprehensive world view. My interest is in the territory between them.
— Thomas Nagel
Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.
— Paul C. Nagel
The most radical conclusion to draw from this would be that your mind is the only thing that exists.
— Thomas Nagel
People on medications that affect their thyroid can have significant tooth decay problems.
— Ramiel Nagel
Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations.
— Paul C. Nagel
I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
— Thomas Nagel
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.
— Thomas Nagel
Even if life as a whole is meaningless, perhaps that's nothing to worry about. Perhaps we can recognise it and just go on as before.
— Thomas Nagel
Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.
— Thomas Nagel
If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.
— Thomas Nagel
Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
— Thomas Nagel
Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside
— Thomas Nagel
Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.
— Paul C. Nagel
The human will to believe is inexhaustible
— Thomas Nagel
Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel
John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.
— Paul C. Nagel
Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.
— Thomas Nagel
Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
— Thomas Nagel
Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.
— Paul C. Nagel
pointer is simply a variable that stores the address of something else in the same way as a reference. The
— Christian Nagel
The place at which the contrast between forms of intelligibility is most vividly presented is in the understanding of ourselves.
— Thomas Nagel
Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.
— Paul C. Nagel
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
— Thomas Nagel
The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".
— Paul C. Nagel
If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.
— Thomas Nagel
I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.
— Thomas Nagel
The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel
If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.
— Thomas Nagel
Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel
I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that person!
— Susan Nagel
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. — Thomas Nagel
Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.
— Paul C. Nagel
The question is there, whther we answer it or not.
— Thomas Nagel
Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.
— Thomas Nagel
The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.
— Paul C. Nagel
I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel
He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.
— Paul C. Nagel
