Thomas Nagel Quote

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.


"The Absurd" in Mortal Questions, Cambridge University Press, 1979, p. 23.


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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...