You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire… — 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
Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make,… — 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
Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, 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
