Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
SAM HARRISValues reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
SAM HARRISAs a man believes, so he will act.
SAM HARRISWords like ‘God’ and ‘Allah’ must go the way of ‘Apollo’ and ‘Baal’ or they will unmake our world.
SAM HARRISYou don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.
SAM HARRISYou can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
SAM HARRISAtheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
SAM HARRISThe power of psychedelics is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.
SAM HARRISThe science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.
SAM HARRISThe 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.
SAM HARRISIn the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.
SAM HARRISFaith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
SAM HARRISThe 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.
SAM HARRISThe truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.
SAM HARRISChristians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
SAM HARRISIf someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
SAM HARRISThe atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
SAM HARRIS