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

Daniel Dennett

I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
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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Brain Ourselves
Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn’t kept pace.
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Moral Ourselves Technology Understand
No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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Easy Smart Way Yourself
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Dreams Imagination Knowledge Yourself
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
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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Evolution Internet Organization Phone Revolution Selection
The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness – by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.
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Best Creation Goodness Place Thankful
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Conscious Human Mystery Survive
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Effect Mindset Science
Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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Blind Love Resolution Suffering Tragedy
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.
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Blessing God Gratitude Ideas Innovation Life Ourselves Worth
It’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.
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Criticism Feeling Hurt Opportunity Religious Situation Win
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

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