“Any person who lies awake at night worrying about the private pleasures of other consenting adults has more than just too much… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We do not respect people's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. If my reasons are good enough for believing what I believe, you… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended,… — 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. The only… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“When will we realize that the concessions we have made to faith in our political discourse have prevented us from even speaking… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If religious war is ever to become unthinkable for us, in the way that slavery and cannibalism seem poised to, it will… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The link between belief and behavior raises the stakes considerably. Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Within a religious framework, a belief in free will supports the notion of sin—which seems to justify not only harsh punishment in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Our situation is this: most of the people in this world believe that the Creator of the universe has written a book.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The search for comfort at the expense of truth has never been a motive for religious belief, since all creeds are chock-full… — 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
When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If our polls are to be trusted, nearly 230 million Americans believe that a book showing neither unity of style nor internal… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation;… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“There seems, however, to be a problem with some of our more cherished beliefs about the world: they are leading us, inexorably,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“...religious beliefs are simply beyond the scope of rational discourse.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It should go without saying that these rival belief systems [Judaism, Islam, Christianity] are all equally uncontaminated by evidence.” — 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
