Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
SAM HARRISThe fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.
More Sam Harris Quotes
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The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won’t matter how successful you become or who is in your life – you won’t enjoy any of it.
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The core of science is not a mathematical modeling–it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.
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Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.
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The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.
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From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
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The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
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If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?
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Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
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You don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.
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It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
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