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One Quotes by Sam Harris
- Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get…
- Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine…
- The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that…
- 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…
- The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was…
- When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion…
- Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection…
- In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We…
- It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
- Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost…
- People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should…
- Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything…
- What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.
- Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
- One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is…
- 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…
- Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious…
- One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology, and…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle