All Sam Harris Quotes
- What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. Area
- The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. Atheism
- We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence. Atheism
- When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is… Atheism
- If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are… Atheism
- Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world. Actual
- We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And… Atheism
- The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness… Among
- Γ’β¬Ε½Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident Accident
- Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or… Algebra
- It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This… Abilities
- Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction. Admit
- For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the… Based
- Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible… Abused
- An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse --… Achieved
- Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath--and the God of Nature too.… Abraham
- [I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our… Atheism
- The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could… Allows
- The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism. All
- Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is… Affirmed