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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
— Daniel Dennett
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.
— Marvin Minsky
No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
— Daniel Dennett
You can't change your beliefs as an act of will, in the way you can decide to improve your skills with chainsaw or keyboard.
— Daniel C. Dennett
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
— Daniel C. Dennett
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
— Daniel Dennett
Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.
— Daniel Dennett
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
— Daniel Dennett
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
— Daniel Dennett
Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
— Daniel Dennett
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
— Daniel Dennett
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died
— 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
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
— Daniel Dennett
Ancestor worship must be an appealing idea to those who are about to become ancestors. - Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
— Daniel C. Dennett
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
— Daniel Dennett
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
— Daniel C. Dennett
One cannot learn all about what it's like to run a marathon by interviewing only those who drop out - but one can learn something.
— Daniel C. Dennett
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
— Daniel Dennett
I didn't plan to become an atheist. I didn't even want to become an atheist. It's just that I had no choice. If I'm being honest with myself.
— Daniel C. Dennett
Sometimes you don't just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
— Daniel Dennett
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
— Daniel Dennett
I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think - just ask my critics.
— Daniel Dennett
Religions exist primarily for people to achieve together what they cannot achieve alone. - David Sloan Wilson, Darwin's Cathedral
— Daniel C. Dennett
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
— Daniel Dennett
If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.
— Daniel Dennett
Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
— Daniel Dennett
A good library has all the good books. A great library has all the books.
— Daniel C. Dennett
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
— Daniel C. Dennett
The more you have invested in your religion, the more you will be motivated to protect that investment. Stark
— Daniel C. Dennett
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
— Daniel Dennett
