Thomas Nagel Quotes About Belief

• 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

  Dios, Religioso, Ateo

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

• What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem....Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs. (p. 71)

  Thomas Nagel

  Independent, Thinking, Community

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.72, Oxford University Press

• 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

• Una vez que hemos dado el paso atrás hacia una visión abstracta de todo nuestro sistema de creencias, pruebas y justificaciones, y hemos visto que sólo funciona, a pesar de sus pretensiones, dando el mundo en gran medida por sentado, no estamos en condiciones de contrastar todas estas apariencias con una realidad alternativa. No podemos desprendernos de nuestras respuestas ordinarias y, si pudiéramos, no tendríamos medios para concebir una realidad de ningún tipo.

  Thomas Nagel

  Taken, Mean, Reality

• Si intentáramos confiar enteramente en la razón, y la presionáramos con fuerza, nuestra vida y nuestras creencias se derrumbarían, una forma de locura que puede llegar a producirse si se pierde de algún modo la fuerza inercial de dar por sentado el mundo y la vida. Si perdemos ese control, la razón no nos lo devolverá.

  Thomas Nagel

  Dar, Mundo, Mayo

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.20, Cambridge University Press

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