You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
SAM HARRISAtheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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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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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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What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about ‘right’ and ‘wrong,’ or ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?
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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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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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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.
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The core of science is not a mathematical modeling–it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.
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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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Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
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The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.
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Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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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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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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The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.
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