Rohini Murugan

“Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.”
― Thomas Nagel, What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

“. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories.
I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“For here is a man who, in some sense, is desperate, in a frenzy. The world keeps disappearing, losing meaning, vanishing - and he must seek meaning, make meaning, in a desperate way, continually inventing, throwing bridges of meaning over abysses of meaninglessness, the chaos that yawns continually beneath him.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

“After all, there would have been transfinite numbers even if everyone had been wiped out by the Black Death before Cantor discovered them.”
― Thomas Nagel, What Is It Like to Be a Bat?