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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.

Daniel Dennett

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
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Beginning Purpose Reason World
Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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Cost Law Object Science See
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Conscious Human Mystery Survive
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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Architecture Greatness Harm Music Pay Treasure
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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Love Myself People Rate Thinking
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.
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Evidence Life Science Subject
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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Hold Life Paint Philosophy
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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Dangerous Force Fundamental Planet
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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Better Myself Time Yourself
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 DENNETT

Crazy Medical Religious True Yourself

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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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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