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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

Daniel Dennett

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
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
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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Advertisement Better Religion Subtract Yourself
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
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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Belief Believe God Ground Imagination Science
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.
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Imagination Live Mystery Ourselves Philosophy
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
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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Dedication Happiness Life Secret Yourself
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
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Fair Ignorance Learning Myself Process Reading Writing
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 way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Effect Mindset Science
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy

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