In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability. Daniel C. Dennett
Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate of Chicago and another of Ann Arbor; one...
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Clarence Darrow
Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized...
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Clarence Darrow
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
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Frank Herbert
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
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Henry David Thoreau
We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.
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Stefan Molyneux
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.
