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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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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 think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about – about what the issues really are – and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don’t have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.
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In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
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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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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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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 are no good reasons to believe in god.
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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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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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