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DANIEL DENNETTThe secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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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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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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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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The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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I’m the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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