[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad...To produce this horrible confection at… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Because most religions offer no valid mechanism by which their core beliefs can be tested and revised, each new generation of believers… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic—in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The doors leading out of scriptural literalism do not open from the inside. The moderation we see among nonfundamentalists is not some… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“While religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction, it is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“...religious moderates are themselves the bearers of a terrible dogma: they imagine that the path to peace will be paved once each… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is time we realize that belief is not a private matter. As a man believes, so he will act. Believe that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything in a person’s life.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“How is it that, in this one area of our lives [religion], we have convinced ourselves that our beliefs about the world… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Nothing that a Christian and a Muslim can say to each other will render their beliefs mutually vulnerable to discourse, because the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, disgraces anyone who would claim it.” — 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
“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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