Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
DANIEL DENNETTMost people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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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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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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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.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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AI makes philosophy honest.
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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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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
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