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.
DANIEL DENNETTWe need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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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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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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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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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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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 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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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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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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Thanks 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.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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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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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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AI makes philosophy honest.
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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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No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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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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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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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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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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