There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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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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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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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AI makes philosophy honest.
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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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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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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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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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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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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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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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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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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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It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
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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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