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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

Daniel Dennett

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.
DANIEL DENNETT

Better Myself Time Yourself
Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn’t kept pace.
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Moral Ourselves Technology Understand
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
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
I 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.
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Different Enjoyment Goodness Love Myself See World
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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Alone Children Desert Empathy
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
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
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
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Assumption Freedom Lying Philosophy Science
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
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Afraid Cure Fantasy Hope Information Myself
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
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
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself

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