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.
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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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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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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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 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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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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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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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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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 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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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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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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