Thomas Nagel Quotes

Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and culturally - in relation to the natural world for hundreds of thousands of years.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

You get World Peace through Inner Peace. If you've got a world full of people who have Inner Peace, then you have a Peaceful World.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness.

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

Remember that consciousness is power. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.

We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our own consciousness. Yet surely the exploration and expansion of the miracle of our consciousness is the essence of what it is to be human? By demonstrating and persecuting whole areas of consciousness, we may be denying ourselves the next vital step in our own evolution.

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

I teach people to question their thinking, and this changes their world.

What I would do to change this planet is have everyone meditate and look inside. Then we'd have a happier, more service-oriented, less-needy world.

My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy could be the evolutionary process trying to hurry up mind expansion. Maybe my mind didn't snap. Maybe it was just trying to stretch itself into a new shape. The cerebral cortex trying to grow a thumb of sorts.

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.