"Unlike statements of fact, which require no further……" — Sam Harris
"Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality."
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146 Quotes by Sam Harris
Sam Harris has 146 quotes on this site.
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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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More Collision Quotes
This quote is filed under Collision Quotes,
one of 121 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
— Duffy Daugherty
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles…
— Abraham Lincoln
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General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops…
— Ambrose Bierce
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A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build…
— Andrew Joseph Galambos
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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought…
— David Seabury
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It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion…
— James Madison
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The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic…
— Iannis Xenakis
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Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or…
— Jacques Ellul
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An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and…
— Lester R. Brown
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For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty…
— Adolf Hitler
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This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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