Psychology Quotes by Sam Harris

“Some pleasures are intrinsically ethical—feelings like love, gratitude, devotion, and compassion. To inhabit these states of mind is, by definition, to be…

— Sam Harris

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various…

— Sam Harris

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

— Sam Harris

“Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others.”

— Sam Harris

“Despite our attachment to the notion of free will, most of us know that disorders of the brain can trump the best…

— Sam Harris

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly…

— Sam Harris

“It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense…

— Sam Harris

“The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear…

— Sam Harris

It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the…

— Sam Harris

“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity…

— Sam Harris

“If my brain were surgically divided by callosotomy tomorrow, this would create at least two independent conscious minds, both of which would…

— Sam Harris

“Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others. This…

— Sam Harris

Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the…

— Sam Harris

“There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of passion—a passion for discerning what…

— Sam Harris

“Being wisely selfish and being selfless can amount to very much the same thing. There are centuries of anecdotal testimony on this…

— Sam Harris

“There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to…

— Sam Harris

“It is always now. This might sound trite, but it is the truth. It’s not quite true as a matter of neurology,…

— Sam Harris

“This is an empirical claim: Look closely enough at your own mind in the present moment, and you will discover that the…

— Sam Harris