I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
DANIEL DENNETTMost people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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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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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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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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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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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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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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I don’t think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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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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