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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

Daniel Dennett

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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Contribution Destination Philosophy Quite Recognition Talk
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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Color Criticism Deny Experience Myself Pain People Repeat
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Care Knowledge Yourself
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Effect Mindset Science
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason
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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Brain Depend Human Mindset Place Reach
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Dreams Imagination Knowledge Yourself
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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Love Myself People Rate Thinking
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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Believe God People Religious
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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Behavior Polite Rude Time Yourself
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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Assumption Freedom Lying Philosophy Science
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.
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Imagination Live Mystery Ourselves Philosophy
We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
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Children Growth Knowledge Need Ourselves Worst
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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Agency Animal Culture Moral See Thinking

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