“Clearly, it is time we learned to meet our emotional needs without embracing the preposterous. We must find ways to invoke the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear… — 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
All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Advance warning of Katrina's path was wrested from mute Nature by meteorological calculations and satellite imagery. God told no one of His… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that… — 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
We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“As long as it is acceptable for a person to believe that he knows how God wants everyone on earth to live,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath--and the God… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“This is not (as you have charged) to paint religion with a broad brush. I am very quick to distinguish gradations of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“You need an argument, and the nature of any argument is that its validity doesn't depend on who you are. [...] When… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It is time we admitted, from kings and presidents on down, that there is no evidence that any of our books was… — 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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