Daniel Dennett Quotes About Opportunity

• It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

  Daniel Dennett

  Hurt, Winning, Opportunity

• Intenta adquirir la extraña práctica de saborear tus errores, deleitándote en descubrir las extrañas peculiaridades que te llevaron por mal camino. Entonces, cuando hayas absorbido todo lo bueno de haberlos cometido, podrás olvidarlos alegremente y pasar a la siguiente gran oportunidad.

  Daniel Dennett

  Mistake, Opportunity, Practice

• Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.

  Daniel Dennett

  Opportunity, Enemy, Environmental

  Daniel C. Dennett (2004). “Freedom Evolves”, p.221, Penguin UK

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