World Quotes by Sam Harris

Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost…

— Sam Harris

To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.

— Sam Harris

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

— Sam Harris

Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire…

— Sam Harris

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

— Sam Harris

It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

— Sam Harris

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

— Sam Harris

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only…

— Sam Harris

Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth…

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People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only…

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By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make,…

— Sam Harris

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States - in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal…

— Sam Harris

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

It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can…

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Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath--and the God…

— Sam Harris

You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you…

— Sam Harris

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

Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific…

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According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences…

— Sam Harris

Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble . It's the only area of our…

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Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the…

— Sam Harris

As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If…

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To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world - to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran…

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We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be…

— Sam Harris

To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…

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You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil…

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Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people -…

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The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology…

— Sam Harris

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the…

— Sam Harris

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the…

— Sam Harris

What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted…

— Sam Harris

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us…

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A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no…

— Sam Harris

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

The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have…

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Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse…

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Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics.…

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Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going…

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We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have…

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Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment,…

— Sam Harris