“We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.”
Daniel Dennett in a panel under the title "Can Rationality Be Taught?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImE6-3GuvhE at TAM 2014.
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The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Nine, Flying and Seeing: New Ways to Learn
Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.75 (July 2018)
“I think we really have to stand for something. I think we give the customer better value.”
Interview with CNBC's David Faber http://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/14/cnbc-exclusive-cnbc-transcript-dish-chairman-ceo-charlie-ergen-speaks-with-cnbcs-david-faber-on-squawk-on-the-street-today.html (2015)
From a radio interview by Jed the fish (1997)
In interviews etc., About life and death
“It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1929)
Context: We are today, as human beings, evolved and cultured far beyond the taboos which are inherent in our culture. This is a very important fact to realise. Probably, to the Crusaders, mere words were potent and evocative to a degree we can't realise. The evocative power of the so-called obscene words must have been very dangerous to the dim-minded, obscure, violent natures of the Middle Ages, and perhaps are still too strong for slow-minded, half-evoked lower natures today. But real culture makes us give to a word only those mental and imaginative reactions which belong to the mind, and saves us from violent and indiscriminate physical reactions which may wreck social decency. In the past, man was too weak-minded, or crude-minded, to contemplate his own physical body and physical functions, without getting all messed up with physical reactions that overpowered him. It is no longer so. Culture and civilisation have taught us to separate the reactions. We now know the act does not necessarily follow on the thought. In fact, thought and action, word and deed, are two separate forms of consciousness, two separate lives which we lead. We need, very sincerely, to keep a connection. But while we think, we do not act, and while we act we do not think. The great necessity is that we should act according to our thoughts, and think according to our acts. But while we are in thought we cannot really act, and while we are in action we cannot really think. The two conditions, of thought and action, are mutually exclusive. Yet they should be related in harmony.
1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 136.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)