Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
DANIEL DENNETTI 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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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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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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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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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It’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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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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Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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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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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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Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them – if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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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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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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