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What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Daniel Dennett

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
DANIEL DENNETT

Better Myself Time Yourself
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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Behavior Polite Rude Time Yourself
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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Believe God People Religious
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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Better Philosophy Question Science Way Yourself
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.
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Evidence Life Science Subject
We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be “informavores”, epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
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Decision Future Improvement Live Open World
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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Dangerous Force Fundamental Planet
Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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Blind Love Resolution Suffering Tragedy
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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Destruction Enemy Hit Mindset Panic Worst Yourself
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
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Fair Ignorance Learning Myself Process Reading Writing
I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it’s art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I’d like to add a little to that goodness.
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Different Enjoyment Goodness Love Myself See World
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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Dedication Illusion People Polite Simplicity
No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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Easy Smart Way Yourself

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

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