“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
An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Imagine what it would be like for our descendants to experience the fall of civilization. Imagine failures of reasonableness so total that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Not learning how to read is not another style of literacy, and not learning to see others as ends in themselves is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The closest thing in my life to a mistake of that magnitude was the marriage of my dear friend Liza to the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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