Quote by Daniel C. Dennett Download Open image ““prosaic, pedestrian example, but everything”” — Daniel C. Dennett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Everybody out on the sidewalk is a pedestrian Mercedes, wallowing in entitlement—colliding, snarling, shoving ahead without even the hollow-to-begin-with local euphemism “Excuse me.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Of course, my fundamentals may not work for everyone. A beautiful aspect of the human race is our endless variety. Like maple leaves and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is something terribly wrong.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“When you live for the purpose of making a difference for the people, for society, for the things that are beyond you, then significance… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Somebody should really do something about all the World's problems, especially the ones involving parking near my office.” — Duncan Whitehead Copy Share Image
“We shouldn’t view our work as a series of isolated events. Static. Unique. Only vaguely related. The fact is, those presumably isolated events combine… — Jim Benson Copy Share Image
“Obviousism—I would give you a definition, but the definition would only be an example of the word.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The problem with generalizations is that there are always special cases under which they don't apply, except for when there aren't.” — John Himself Copy Share Image
“At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“It is not “scientism” to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Some years ago, there was a lovely philosopher of science and journalist in Italy named Giulio Giorello, and he did an interview with me.… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever became a famous philosopher by being a champion of ecumenical hybridism.” — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“human beings are actually more closely related to the two species of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes, the familiar chimp, and Pan paniscus, the rare, smaller… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Is this Tree of Life a God one could worship? Pray to? Fear? Probably not. But it did make the ivy twine and the… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“We can now expose perhaps the most common misunderstanding of Darwinism: the idea that Darwin showed that evolution by natural selection is a procedure… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Carpenters don’t make their saws and hammers, tailors don’t make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don’t make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“As I have often noted, a wagon with spoked wheels doesn’t just carry grain or freight from place to place; it carries the brilliant… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
