We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
DANIEL DENNETTSometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them – if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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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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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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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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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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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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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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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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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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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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No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness – by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.
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