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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

Daniel Dennett

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
DANIEL DENNETT

Care Complete Guide Knowledge Limitation Yourself
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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Blind Love Resolution Suffering Tragedy
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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Dedication Illusion People Polite Simplicity
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
DANIEL DENNETT

Better Philosophy Question Science Way Yourself
Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.
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Competition Consider Mindset Possible
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President
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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Love Myself People Rate Thinking
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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Dangerous Force Fundamental Planet
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Failure Imagination Mistake Necessary Philosophy
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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Believe Seminar Yourself
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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Natural Religion Social System

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