The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine 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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It’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.
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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.
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I’m the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.
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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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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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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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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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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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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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