Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
SAM HARRISHow we pay attention to the present moment…determin es the character of our experience and…the quality of our lives.
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We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
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You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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Theology is ignorance with wings.
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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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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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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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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Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
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The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.
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Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.
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A puppet is free as long as he loves his 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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Faith enables many of us to endure life’s difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.
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An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse — and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.
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