It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
DANIEL DENNETTThe 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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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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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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.
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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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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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