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.
DANIEL DENNETTTrue, 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.
DANIEL DENNETTThe earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
DANIEL DENNETTMost people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
DANIEL DENNETTTrue, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
DANIEL DENNETTWhat you can imagine depends on what you know.
DANIEL DENNETTWhat you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.
DANIEL DENNETTI am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
DANIEL DENNETTReligions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
DANIEL DENNETTYou can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
DANIEL DENNETTI think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
DANIEL DENNETTThe mind is the effect, not the cause.
DANIEL DENNETTIf I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
DANIEL DENNETTThanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn’t kept pace.
DANIEL DENNETTPhilosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
DANIEL DENNETTThere are no good reasons to believe in god.
DANIEL DENNETTAI makes philosophy honest.
DANIEL DENNETT