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.
DANIEL DENNETTAs every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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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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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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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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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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AI makes philosophy honest.
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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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The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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