Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Take a moment to think about the context in which your next decision will occur: You did not pick your parents or… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“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
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
“It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Anyone being flown to a distant city for heart-bypass surgery has conceded, tacitly at least, that we have learned a few things… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I wanted to smell like someone’s smoke. It was Aretha smoke. I decided right then… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Religion is nothing more than bad concepts held in place of good ones for all time. It is denial - at once… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy here...… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The fact that millions of people use the term "morality" as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“While thinking is a practical necessity, the failure to recognize thoughts as thoughts, moment after moment, is what gives each of us… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“This is an empirical claim: Look closely enough at your own mind in the present moment, and you will discover that the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“if, like many people, you tend to be vaguely unhappy much of the time, it can be very helpful to manufacture a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The core of science is not controlled experiment or mathetical modeling; it is intellectual honesty. It is time we acknowledge a basic… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“There is never a moment where I find Trump persuasive. When I look at him I see a man without any inner… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If there is any kernel of truth in the religions we so deplore,and they are just a carnival of errors,the truth is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is time we realize that belief is not a private matter. As a man believes, so he will act. Believe that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It is time we acknowledged that no real foundation exists within the canons of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or any of our other… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Despite the beauty of our world and the scope of human accomplishment, it is hard not to worry that the forces of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The problem is that most people, most of the time, are desperate to believe ridiculous and divisive ideas for patently emotional reasons,and… — 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
