There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
DANIEL DENNETTThere’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
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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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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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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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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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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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You don’t get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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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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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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The 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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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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