Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by … - Thomas Nagel

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I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I just know for sure I'm going to keep playing basketball.

Thomas Nagel

Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented as an argument is really a rationalization. This can undermine our confidence in the original method or practice only by giving us reasons to believe something else, so that finally we have to think about the arguments to make up our minds.

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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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