All Sam Harris Quotes
- Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. Course
- Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not… Activities
- It is time we realize that belief is not a private matter. As a man believes, so he will act. Believe that you are a… Act
- We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent… All
- Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being… Conscious
- There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some… Answers
- One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced. Any
- There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of… Confounded
- On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We… Area
- The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good. Bad
- One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting,… Along
- Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what… Each
- Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness… Answers
- Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to… Achieve
- While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by… Always Caused
- Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable… Absolutely
- Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world. All
- While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it… All
- The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens… All
- 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 to… Co