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.
DANIEL DENNETTLove 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.
DANIEL DENNETTI don’t think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.
DANIEL DENNETTPhilosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
DANIEL DENNETTA child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
DANIEL DENNETTThe 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.
DANIEL DENNETTWe 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.
DANIEL DENNETTAI makes philosophy honest.
DANIEL DENNETTReligions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
DANIEL DENNETTThe way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
DANIEL DENNETTChurches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
DANIEL DENNETTLife itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
DANIEL DENNETTIn the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
DANIEL DENNETTYou can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
DANIEL DENNETTCost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
DANIEL DENNETTReligion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
DANIEL DENNETTDarwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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