“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
“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
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
“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
“The fact that faith has motivated many people to do good things does not suggest that faith is itself a necessary (or… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Given the link between belief and action, it is clear that we can no more tolerate a diversity of religious beliefs than… — 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
It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“In adaptive terms, belief has been extraordinarily useful. It is, after all, by believing various propositions about the world that we predict… — 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… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble . It's the only area of our… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“People of faith tend to argue that it is not faith itself but man's baser nature that inspires such violence. But, I… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“In the best case, notions of God’s love and grace provide some relief—but the central message of these faiths is that each… — 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
“The concessions we have made to religious faith - to the idea that belief can be sanctified by something other than evidence… — 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
“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
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
“For anyone with eyes to see, there can be no doubt that religious faith remains a perpetual source of human conflict. Religion… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Criticizing a person’s ideas about God and the afterlife is thought to be impolitic in a way that criticizing his ideas about… — 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
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
Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this… — 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
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
“It should go without saying that these rival belief systems [Judaism, Islam, Christianity] are all equally uncontaminated by evidence.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“In the best case, faith leaves otherwise well-intentioned people incapable of thinking rationally about many of their deepest concerns; at worst, it… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only… — 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
“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
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs… — 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 fact that religious faith has left its mark on every aspect of our civilization is not an argument in its favor,… — 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
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
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
![“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in the modern world. [...] The first thing to observe about the moderate’s retreat from scriptural literalism is that it draws its inspiration not from scripture but from…” quote by Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b44/sam-harris-457_bible_moderates-in-every-faith-are-obliged-to_6967.jpg)
![“How is it that, in this one area of our lives [religion], we have convinced ourselves that our beliefs about the world can float entirely free of reason and evidence?” quote by Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8de/sam-harris-457_faith_how-is-it-that-in-this-one-area-of-our-l_1600361.jpg)
![“It should go without saying that these rival belief systems [Judaism, Islam, Christianity] are all equally uncontaminated by evidence.” quote by Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e79/sam-harris-457_christianity_it-should-go-without-saying-that-these-r_2675399.jpg)
