“What you can imagine depends on what you know.”
― Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
"Philosophy - in every field of enquiry - is what you have to do until you figure out what question you should have been asking in the first place".
― Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
“You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.”
― Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
“There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view I hold dear.”
― Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
“Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.”
― Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
“People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.”
― Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.”
― Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
“Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.”
― Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
“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 (1942-2024)