Skip to content

Atheism Quote by Sam Harris

“We have a choice. We have two options as human…” quote by Sam Harris — Download Open image

“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 faith is a conversation stopper.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Atheism Atheist Choices Communication Conversation Faith Humans Two Violence War

More by Sam Harris

“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in the modern…

Image

There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by…

Image

We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends…

Image

“Your principal concern appears to be that the Creator of the universe will take offense at something people do while naked. This prudery of…

Image

“As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never…

Image

About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are…

Image

“If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist…

Image

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…

Image

The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second…

Image

“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.”

Image

“Whether or not one likes Huntington's formulation, one thing is clear: the evil that has finally reached our shores is not merely the evil…

Image

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

Image

Explore all 543 Sam Harris quotes

More Atheism quotes

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Image

“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart…

Image

Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

Image

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Image

Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in…

Image

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

Thomas Jefferson

Image

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

Arthur Koestler

Image

God speaks through me.

Image

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it…

Albert Einstein

Image

You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

Image

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning…

Image

If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…

Robert Green Ingersoll

Image

Browse all 4,676 Atheism quotes