Daniel C. Dennett

Quotes

• “Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements w...”
• “I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no ...”
• “In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a p...”
• “Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "...”
• “I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transpare...”
• “I agree with Abhijit Naskar that the path of tolerance is the only way—but it must be accompanied by continued pressure ...”
• “Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but ...”
• “Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to ...”
• “In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause t...”
• “That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit t...”
• “One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.”
• “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.”
• “Words are memes that can be pronounced.”