Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
Daniel DennettPhilosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
Daniel DennettIf the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience were reduced somehow to mere matter in motion, what would happen to our appreciation of love and pain and dreams and joy? If conscious human beings were just animated material objects, how could anything we do to them be right or wrong?
Daniel Dennett