Thomas Nagel Quotes

Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

What I try to do is find a language for life.

The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.

The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

The purpose of life is to live it.

That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie] has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following.

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script.

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

We’re all alive, but we don’t know why or what for; we’re all searching for happiness; we’re all leading lives which are different and yet the same.

I never thought when I was a kid that I would become an adult. I never thought of myself as having any sort of distant horizon. I have sort of leapt without a master plan.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.