The mind is the effect, not the cause.
DANIEL DENNETTThe only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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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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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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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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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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No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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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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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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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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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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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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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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Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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