"The best thing about saying thank goodness in……" — Daniel Dennett
"The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come."
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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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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