Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.
DANIEL DENNETTI 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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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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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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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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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To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
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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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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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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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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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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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