"My thesis is that morality exists outside the……" — Michael Shermer
"My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal."
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97 Quotes by Michael Shermer
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The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of…
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People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
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Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest…
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice.…
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Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed…
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Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
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The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive…
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Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost…
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Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
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Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from…
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Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
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The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I…
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I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel…
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
— Marcus Aurelius
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
— Kevin Bacon
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
— David Bailey
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human…
— Ansel Adams
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
— Dave Barry
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever…
— John Adams
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of…
— Jean Baudrillard
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