Home / Quotes / Quote by Daniel Dennett

Quote by Daniel Dennett

“In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.”

Quote by Daniel Dennett

Author

Daniel Dennett, born on March 28, 1942, is an American philosopher renowned for his work in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of the mind. His research spans various areas including consciousness, free will, and the philosophy of the mind. more

You May Also Like

“Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.”

Way Religious Internet Phones Landscape Evolve Revolutionary Mobile Defence Altered Organisation Selective Mobile Phones

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”

“Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.”

Needs Culture Social Causes Environment Bears Findings Cells Biology Resemblance Dissolution Nutrients Social Environment

Author:Daniel Dennett

“We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.”

Should Believe Ideas Reason Able Used Universe Ultimate Presses Explanation No Reason

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.”

Different Form Dies

Author:Lester Bangs

“In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care.”

Thinking Knows Facts Care Interest Don't Care Vested Interests

Author:Lester Bangs

“I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.”

Particular Popular Music

Author:Lester Bangs

“The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.”

Real Strong Groups Identity Personality Coming Out Strong Person Strong Personality

Author:Lester Bangs

“I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Mean Two Term Five Couple Thousand Twenties Independent Albums Labels Twenty Five Stooges

Author:Lester Bangs

“As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.”

People Use Drug Conscience Historical Radical Inevitability

Author:Lester Bangs