The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.
DANIEL DENNETTIn the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it’s art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I’d like to add a little to that goodness.
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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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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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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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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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I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love.
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We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be “informavores”, epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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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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In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
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The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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