The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
DANIEL DENNETTReligions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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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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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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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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Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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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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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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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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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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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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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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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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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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Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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