"Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself."

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Source : Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.66, Oxford University Press

Thomas Nagel

#Waking Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get.”

Source : Interview with Jonathan Goldstein, believermag.com. March 1, 2013.
“Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.”
“All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.”
“The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.”
“The uniform enhanced his athletic body, and my thoughts drifted to how magnificent he would look with his uniform puddled around his feet.”
“Something worth doing might take a while, so really flesh out the potential of the business and be honest about whether it's worth doing. If it's not a $100 million company in five years, maybe it'll take 10 or 15 years. If you're doing something that has a universal, timeless need, then you need to think of the company in a timeless way.”
“I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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