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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

Daniel Dennett

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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Behavior Polite Rude Time Yourself
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Failure Imagination Mistake Necessary Philosophy
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason
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.
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Blessing God Gratitude Ideas Innovation Life Ourselves Worth
Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Direction Ideas Natural People Tradition
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
A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Library Scholar Way
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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Goodness Hide Mistake Trick Yourself
No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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Easy Smart Way Yourself
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
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Dreams Imagination Knowledge Yourself
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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Care Complete Guide Knowledge Limitation Yourself
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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Break Down Forever Ignorance Relative Religion
The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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Care Effort Examination Life Meaning Worth
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

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