Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millennia, and it has been another… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion! — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
For more than a century, people have often thought that the conclusion to draw from Darwin's vision is that Homo sapiens, our… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life? — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again,… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millennia, and it has been another sour sort… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
