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.
SAM HARRISAtheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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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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The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.
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Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.
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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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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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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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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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Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
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We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.
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It 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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We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
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It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.
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False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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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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