Daniel Dennett Quotes about Atheism

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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

Daniel Dennett

Religion, Atheism, Force

Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.

Daniel Dennett

Atheist, Atheism, Doe

Daniel C. Dennett (2006). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.56, Penguin

Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

Daniel Dennett

Believe, People, Atheism

"How To Save Our Secular America!" by Jack Huberman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2007.

I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I'd like to add a little to that goodness.

Daniel Dennett

Atheist, Art, Atheism

Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that have ever lived have died without progeny, but not a single one of your ancestors falls into that group! ... Not a single one of your ancestors, all the way back to the bacteria, succumbed to predation before reproducing, or lost out in the competition for a mate.

Daniel Dennett

Fall, Competition, Atheism

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

Daniel Dennett

Religious, Atheism, Followers

Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.

Daniel Dennett

Atheism, Unnecessary, Term

Highly technical philosophical arguments of the sort many philosophers favor are absent here. That is because I have a prior problem to deal with. I have learned that arguments, no matter how watertight, often fall on deaf ears. I am myself the author of arguments that I consider rigorous and unanswerable but that are often not such much rebutted or even dismissed as simply ignored.

Daniel Dennett

Fall, Philosophical, Atheism

Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.12, Simon and Schuster