Daniel Dennett

Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.

— Daniel Dennett

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…

— Daniel Dennett

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

— Daniel Dennett

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such…

— Daniel Dennett

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

— Daniel Dennett

I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human…

— Daniel Dennett

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

— Daniel Dennett

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

— Daniel Dennett

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

— Daniel Dennett

If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.

— Daniel Dennett

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

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

— Daniel Dennett

It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are…

— Daniel Dennett

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course,…

— Daniel Dennett

Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team…

— Daniel Dennett

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.

— Daniel Dennett

Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

— Daniel Dennett

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every…

— Daniel Dennett

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.

— Daniel Dennett

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

— Daniel Dennett

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one…

— Daniel Dennett

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a…

— Daniel Dennett

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

— Daniel Dennett

When people ask me what philosophy is, I say philosophy is what you do when you don't know what the right questions…

— Daniel Dennett

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