Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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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.
More Sam Harris Quotes
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.
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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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Theology is ignorance with wings.
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Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.
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As a man believes, so he will act.
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Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath–and the God of Nature too. If you can’t see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.
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The problem with religion, because it’s been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
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This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.
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It’s simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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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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What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about ‘right’ and ‘wrong,’ or ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?
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Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.
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