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Sam Harris

(1967) Religious Studies Scholar United Kingdom

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Sam Harris is a religious studies scholar from the United Kingdom, best known for What Are You Optimistic About?.

Quick Facts About Sam Harris

Born: April 9, 1967
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Religious Studies Scholar
Notable works: What Are You Optimistic About?

About Sam Harris

Samuel Benjamin Harris is an American neuroscientist, philosopher, author, and podcast host. His work includes a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, determinism, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Harris came to prominence for his criticism of religion, and he is known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Sam Harris · Page 4

All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.

Civilized

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“For anyone with eyes to see, there can be no doubt that religious faith remains a perpetual source of human conflict. Religion…

Faith

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“We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy here...…

Buddhism

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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization…

Any

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The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media,…

Atrocities

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I think when you say to someone You are fool not to believe in evolution or a fool to believe the universe…

Accidents

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The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted…

Claims

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“Jerry was a massive, lumbering, redheaded, freckled bully whose head was vastly disproportionately larger than the rest of his body. Like one…

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It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because…

Available

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“The fact that millions of people use the term "morality" as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of…

Character

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“Spirituality must be distinguished from religion—because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences.”

Faith

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It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam.

Islam

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How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become…

Character

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“If you pay attention to your inner life, you will see that the emergence of choices, efforts, and intentions is a fundamentally…

Focus

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“While thinking is a practical necessity, the failure to recognize thoughts as thoughts, moment after moment, is what gives each of us…

Failure

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“The fact that religious faith has left its mark on every aspect of our civilization is not an argument in its favor,…

Religion

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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…

Believe

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“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than…

Genetic engineering

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“I have a friend who is a very successful writer. Early in his career, he wrote a script that I thought was…

Friendship

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“There is clearly a sacred dimension to our existence, and coming to terms with it could well be the highest purpose of…

Human life

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“Religious unreason should acquire and even greater stigma in our discourse, given that it remains among the principal causes of armed conflict…

Religion

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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.

Branches

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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know…

About

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From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

Littles

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“The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil (this is traditionally called the problem of theodicy)…

Philosophy

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Sam Harris by topic

Religion (158) Faith (87) Time (58) People (51) World (46) Life (41) Atheism (39) Religious (38) Believe (36) Humans (34) Thinking (30) Science (29) Atheist (29) Belief (27) Reason (26)