"Most people in the West who say they……" — Daniel Dennett
"Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God."
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101 Quotes by Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett has 101 quotes on this site.
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True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether…
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A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't…
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The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be…
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There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
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Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea…
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Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has…
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The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died
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In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All…
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What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you…
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person…
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Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.
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What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining…
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I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think…
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And I know you're not supposed to say 'Nazi Germany,' but I don't care about political correctness. You know, you…
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Organizations should say and do the things they ACTUALLY believe.
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