“It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-minded… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“My four-year-old son and I have little in common. Cooper loves cars, jets, monster trucks, and motorcycles. All the time. I hate… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“A moment or two of serious self-scrutiny, and you might observe that you no more decide the next thought you think than… — 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
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation;… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs… — 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
The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least,… — 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
“How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas.… — 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
It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no… — 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
“It is time we recognized that all reasonable men and women have a common enemy. It is an enemy so near to… — 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.” — Sam Harris Copy Share
“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
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… — Sam Harris Copy Share
The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology,… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“What could possibly cause billions of human beings to reconsider their religious beliefs? And yet, it is obvious that an utter revolution in our… — Sam Harris Copy Share
