Theology is ignorance with wings.
SAM HARRISReligious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the false to achieve primacy over the facts.
More Sam Harris Quotes
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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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Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.
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Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
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You don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.
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We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
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When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don’t believe as you do.
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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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The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.
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The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we will kill you.
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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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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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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
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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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From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
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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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