It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potential.
SAM HARRISIt is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.
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Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.
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I’m the Ted Bundy of string theory.
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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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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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You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.
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We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
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As a man believes, so he will act.
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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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It’s simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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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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To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.
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The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
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Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow ones own advice.
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The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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