Ifs Quotes by Sam Harris

19 Ifs quotes by Sam Harris

Sam Harris’s 19 'Ifs' observations explore the crossroads of mind and decision. His calm, analytical tone invites you to pause and consider the deeper currents that shape each possibility.

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If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?

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Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem

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The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and…

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Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits…

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If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science . That will…

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If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

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“George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to…

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If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add…

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Meditation puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight…

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If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least,…

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About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our…

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A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no…

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What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted…

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If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value…

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Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about…

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If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or…

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We do not respect people's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. If my reasons are good enough for believing what I believe, you…

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Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment,…

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Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse…

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“As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never…

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“If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist…

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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…

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The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second…

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“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.”

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“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…

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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

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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…

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The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology,…

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“What could possibly cause billions of human beings to reconsider their religious beliefs? And yet, it is obvious that an utter revolution in our…

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