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Human Quotes by Sam Harris
- Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In…
- Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American…
- Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there…
- Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
- The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
- Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
- 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…
- A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet…
- I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
- You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we…
- We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights…
- 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…
- The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by 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…
- Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
- While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds…
- If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to…
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- 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
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein