“Occasionally, Michael Jackson would titter to himself at an internal joke and raise his shoulders like a five-year-old girl who’d just said… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“A moment or two of serious self-scrutiny, and you might observe that you no more decide the next thought you think than… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Anyone being flown to a distant city for heart-bypass surgery has conceded, tacitly at least, that we have learned a few things… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-minded… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“My four-year-old son and I have little in common. Cooper loves cars, jets, monster trucks, and motorcycles. All the time. I hate… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It is time we recognized that all reasonable men and women have a common enemy. It is an enemy so near to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy here...… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“While thinking is a practical necessity, the failure to recognize thoughts as thoughts, moment after moment, is what gives each of us… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in the modern… — Sam Harris Copy Share
There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by… — Sam Harris Copy Share
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“Your principal concern appears to be that the Creator of the universe will take offense at something people do while naked. This prudery of… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never… — Sam Harris Copy Share
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist… — Sam Harris Copy Share
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or… — Sam Harris Copy Share
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.” — Sam Harris Copy Share
“Whether or not one likes Huntington's formulation, one thing is clear: the evil that has finally reached our shores is not merely the evil… — Sam Harris Copy Share
Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have… — Sam Harris Copy Share
The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology,… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“What could possibly cause billions of human beings to reconsider their religious beliefs? And yet, it is obvious that an utter revolution in our… — Sam Harris Copy Share
