"Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless."

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Source : Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

Thomas Nagel

#Interesting Quotes #Mind Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I think that older lesbians definitely didn't take care of themselves. They didn't exercise. But the younger lesbians, they're very different. They go to the gym. They manage their eating. They're much more fashion-conscious.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.”
“We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.”
“How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.”

Source : Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.
“A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.”
“The question you must answer isn't how to get ahead. It's how to go somewhere that matters. And have fun along the way.”
“Santangelo is irritated. "We're not suppose to be collaborating. It's supposed to be a war and you're supposed to stick to the boundaries." "We've seen you in your jocks," she reminds him. "Taylor and Griggs have pashed. You've broken into your father's police station for us. Don't you think the war has lost a bit of its tension?”
“I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.”

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