No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
DANIEL DENNETTThe mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.
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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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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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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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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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I 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.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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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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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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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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AI makes philosophy honest.
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