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Some Quotes by Sam Harris
- 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…
- The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word…
- An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse --…
- 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…
- False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Some Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach