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Human Quotes by Daniel Dennett
- Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
- 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…
- If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience…
- Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
- If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of…
- The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to…
- Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with…
- Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
- People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are…
- Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical…
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin