"A kernel of truth lurks at the heart……" — Sam Harris
"A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it."
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146 Quotes by Sam Harris
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could…
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious…
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken…
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its…
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and…
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions,…
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is…
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception…
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political…
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and…
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin…
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I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and…
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Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like…
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If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.
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We exist in order to actualize the deepest desires of our hearts.
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