"I listen to all these complaints about rudeness……" — Daniel Dennett
"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 asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough."
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101 Quotes by Daniel Dennett
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