"Words have a genealogy and it's easier to……" — Daniel Dennett

"Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language."

— Daniel Dennett

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101 Quotes by Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether…
A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't…
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be…
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea…
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has…
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died
In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and… — Karen Armstrong
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve -… — David Attenborough
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. — Saint Augustine
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The… — Saint Augustine
I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people… — David Axelrod
It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then… — Lester Bangs
I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it… — Amy Adams
People can cry much easier than they can change. — James A. Baldwin
I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month. — Bryan Adams
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to… — Honore de Balzac
Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an… — Scott Adams

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