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.
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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be “informavores”, epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
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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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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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