"What you can imagine depends on what you……" — Daniel Dennett
"What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives."
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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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More Consign Quotes
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a…
— Angela Carter
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Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
— Paulo Coelho
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I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine…
— Barack Obama
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But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we…
— Paulo Coelho
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What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been…
— John Calvin
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
— Barry Goldwater
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I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the…
— Ernst Bacon
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I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice,…
— Unknown Author
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The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics…
— William Shakespeare
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It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will…
— Sam Harris
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