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Beings Quotes by 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 their beliefs modified…
- You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we…
- Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the…
- Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary…
- Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded…
- 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…
- 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…
- The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can…
More Beings Quotes
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of… — David Attenborough
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race… — James A. Baldwin
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams