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Do you always ask me the same questions you ask him?" "It depends on whether or not I get an answer.

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Thomas Nagel

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.

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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.

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If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.

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We are an episode between two oblivions.

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Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

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Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

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