Daniel Dennett Quotes

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• True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
• 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 or…
• A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.
• Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
• There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
• True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in…
• 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…
• There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
• Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give…
• Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another sour sort of…
• The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died
• In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius…
• Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that
• YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots
• I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of…
• The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
• There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
• I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
• Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather…
• Up till now, we can suppose, nervous systems solved the Now what do I do? problem by a relatively simple balancing act between a strictly…

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