You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
DANIEL DENNETTYou can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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Sometimes 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.
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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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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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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 secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it’s art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I’d like to add a little to that goodness.
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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 am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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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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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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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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Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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AI makes philosophy honest.
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