"I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra."

--

Source : "The Atheism Tapes". BBC Documentary, 2004.

Daniel Dennett

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Viagra Quotes

“Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service.”
“In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.”
“When it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are.”
“When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.”
“There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.”
“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
“Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.”

Source : "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
“'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.”

You may also like:

Alvin Plantinga
Philosopher
Christopher Hitchens
Author
David Chalmers
Philosopher
Douglas Hofstadter
Professor
John Searle
Philosopher
Lawrence M. Krauss
Physicist
Richard Dawkins
Ethologist
Sam Harris
Author
Steven Pinker
Psychologist