Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t, " thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don't go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t. Daniel C. Dennett
We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Edgar Allan Poe
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
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Tom Robbins
Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart
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Tammara Webber
Love is illogical, love had consequences-- I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.
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Marie Lu
What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
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Virginia Woolf
More Quotes By Daniel C. Dennett
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
Some years ago, there was a lovely philosopher of science and journalist in Italy named Giulio Giorello, and he did an interview with me. And I don’t know if he wrote it or not, but the headline in Corriere della Sera when it was published...
The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
