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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

Daniel Dennett

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.
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Competition Consider Mindset Possible
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
Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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Belief Believe God Ground Imagination Science
I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love.
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Love Myself People Rate Thinking
The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness – by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.
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Best Creation Goodness Place Thankful
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.
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Condition Freedom Human Mistake Objection Oneself
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
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Architecture Greatness Harm Music Pay Treasure
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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Natural Religion Social System
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
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don’t have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.
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Crazy Medical Religious True Yourself
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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Dreams Imagination Knowledge Yourself
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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Alone Children Desert Empathy
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.
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Blessing God Gratitude Ideas Innovation Life Ourselves Worth

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