Nagel, Thomas

"We must accept that some aspects of reality may resist explanation."

"The world from an objective standpoint appears cold and meaningless."

"Personal experience is the touchstone of all philosophical inquiry."

"Consciousness is both the most familiar and most mysterious phenomenon."

"Our task is to live meaningfully despite the apparent meaninglessness of the universe."

"The reduction of mind to matter has proven more difficult than expected."

"Objective description leaves out the subjective dimension of experience."

"Consciousness may require us to expand our conception of the physical."

"We are the universe becoming aware of itself, yet our awareness resists explanation."

"Knowledge of consciousness requires first-person investigation."

"The hard problem demonstrates a fundamental limitation of scientific method."

"Subjectivity is not a deficiency but the core of what makes us human."

"Understanding others requires recognition of their irreducible subjectivity."

"Consciousness may be a basic feature of reality, not a derivative one."

"The explanatory gap reveals something true about the nature of consciousness."

"We live in a tension between scientific objectivity and human subjectivity."

"Experience itself provides the only access to consciousness."

"The physical facts do not determine all facts about consciousness."

"What it is like to be conscious cannot be captured in third-person language."

"Consciousness remains the central unsolved problem of philosophy and science."

"We must learn to live with mysteries that may resist resolution."