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.
SAM HARRISThe 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.
More Sam Harris Quotes
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I’m the Ted Bundy of string theory.
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Words like ‘God’ and ‘Allah’ must go the way of ‘Apollo’ and ‘Baal’ or they will unmake our world.
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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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Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I’m simply worried.
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When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn’t. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
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It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
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Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.
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What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody’s beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.
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If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?
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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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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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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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