What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.
DANIEL DENNETTNow 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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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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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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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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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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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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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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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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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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No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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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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Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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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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