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Reason Quotes by Sam Harris
- I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense…
- It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
- There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
- The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I…
- 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…
- 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.
- Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love
- What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
- Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong