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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
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,
— 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
If nobody cares, then it doesn't matter what happens to flowers.
— Daniel Dennett
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
— Daniel Dennett
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
— Daniel Dennett
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
— Daniel Dennett
But I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.
— Daniel Dennett
YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots
— Daniel Dennett
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
— Daniel Dennett
Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism ...
— Daniel Dennett
You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!
— Daniel Dennett
One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.
— Daniel C. Dennett
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
— 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
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
— Daniel Dennett
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
— Daniel C. Dennett
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
— Daniel Dennett
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
— Daniel Dennett
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
— Daniel Dennett
A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.
— Daniel Dennett
prosaic, pedestrian example, but everything
— Daniel C. Dennett
That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.
— Daniel C. Dennett
If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
— Daniel Dennett
There's simply no polite way to tell people they've dedicated their lives to an illusion.
— Daniel Dennett
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
— 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
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
— Daniel Dennett
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
— Daniel Dennett
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
— Daniel Dennett
The more you have invested in your religion, the more you will be motivated to protect that investment. Stark
— Daniel C. Dennett
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
— Daniel C. Dennett
A good library has all the good books. A great library has all the books.
— Daniel C. 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
If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.
— Daniel Dennett
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
— Daniel Dennett
Religions exist primarily for people to achieve together what they cannot achieve alone. - David Sloan Wilson, Darwin's Cathedral
— Daniel C. 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
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
— Daniel 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
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
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
— Daniel 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
No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
— Daniel Dennett
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
— 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
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
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
— Daniel Dennett
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died
— 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
Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
— Daniel Dennett
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
— Daniel Dennett
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
— Daniel Dennett
Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.
— Daniel Dennett
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
— Daniel Dennett
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
— Daniel C. Dennett