Thomas Nagel Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

  Thomas Nagel

  God, Religious, Atheist

  "The Last Word". Book by Thomas Nagel, 1997.

• Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.

  Thomas Nagel

  Humility, Temptation, Intellectual

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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

  Thomas Nagel

  Waking, Becoming, Wake Up

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

• The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form that exists both individually and intersubjectively. It was originally a biological evolutionary process, and in our species it has become a collective cultural process as well. Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

  Thomas Nagel

  Expansion, Wake Up, World

• The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future--though all three, the consciousness, the knowledge, and the choice, are dispersed over a vast crowd of beings, acting both individually and collectively.

  Thomas Nagel

  Choices, Acting, Three

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False”, p.124, Oxford University Press

• It isn't just that I don't believe in God, and naturally, hope there is no God. I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

  Thomas Nagel

  Believe, Want, There Is No God

  Thomas Nagel (1997). “The Last Word”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA

• Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.

  Thomas Nagel

  Belief, Belief In God, Universe

  Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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