Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about – about what the issues really are – and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
DANIEL DENNETTIt’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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It’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.
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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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The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.
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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.
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The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.
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Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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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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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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