"The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

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“A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.”
“There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world.”
“Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.”
“I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.”
“In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience.Â I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of their souls that art is about the experience of reality. The reason we have art is because you canâ€™t get a real experience from the world.”
“It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.â€ Why, Gillian, itâ€™s that very ability that makes us so superior.”
“... the conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason ...”
“Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.16, Oxford University Press

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