Norway Quotes by Sam Harris

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

— Sam Harris

“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

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

— Sam Harris