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Philosophy — in every field of inquiry — is what you have to do until you figure out what questions you should have been asking in the first place.

— Daniel Dennett Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (2013)

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Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

The distinction between responsible moral agents and beings with diminished or no responsibility is coherent, real, and important.

Elbow Room (1984)

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

Time and the observer (1995)

Every human mind you've ever looked at … is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions.

Kinds of Minds (1996)

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (2005)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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