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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

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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Condition Freedom Human Mistake Objection Oneself
A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Library Scholar Way
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
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
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Dreams Imagination Knowledge Yourself
We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
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Children Growth Knowledge Need Ourselves Worst
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.
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Blessing God Gratitude Ideas Innovation Life Ourselves Worth
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
DANIEL DENNETT

Care Knowledge Yourself
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
DANIEL DENNETT

Admit Atheist President
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 is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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Behavior Polite Rude Time Yourself
Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Direction Ideas Natural People Tradition
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
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.
DANIEL DENNETT

Beginning Purpose Reason World

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