"The men who committed the atrocities of September……" — Sam Harris
"The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith—perfect faith, as it turns out—and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be."
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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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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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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want…
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I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn…
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For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs…
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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in…
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The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming…
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The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be…
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A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized…
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The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have…
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I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To…
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