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Thinking Quotes by Sam Harris
- Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others,…
- 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…
- 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…
- The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
- I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities…
- It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical…
- It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige…
- 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…
- 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…
- If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are…
- The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so…
- There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of…
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- We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell