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.
DANIEL DENNETTIt is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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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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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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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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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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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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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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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.
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There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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