There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.
Daniel DennettAtheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.
Daniel DennettPostmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.
Daniel Dennett