"Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants."

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Source : Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.39, Oxford University Press

Thomas Nagel

#World Quotes #Materialism Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.”
“The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization.”
“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.”
“I think that my music is really honest and I think I have something to say. The world revolves around so much negativity that I feel we really need something positive right now. I think people need to be encouraged to strive after those things that seem impossible. That is one of the common themes that runs through my record.”
“Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.”
“To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.”
“... where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh of the Lord: for the true Wisdom did not dwell in another's building, but built for Itself that dwelling-place from the body of the Virgin.”

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