You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
DANIEL DENNETTAI makes philosophy honest.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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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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Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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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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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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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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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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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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I’m the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.
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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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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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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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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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