Sam Harris quotes - page 6

Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery. (Sam Harris)
In a world that has long been terrorized by fratricidal Sky-God religions, the ascendance of Buddhism would surely be a welcome development. View quote
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I can think of no political right more fundamental than the right to peacefully steward the contents of one's own consciousness. View quote
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There is, I'm happy to say, a religion of peace in this world, but it's not Islam. View quote
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How difficult would it be to improve the Bible? View quote
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Faith is a declaration of immunity to the powers of conversation. View quote
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The illusion of free will... is itself an illusion. View quote
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Now Jainism actually is a religion of peace. The core principle of Jainism is non-violence. View quote
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I don't know what happens after the physical brain dies. I don't know what the relationship between consciousness and the physical world is. I don't think anyone does know. View quote
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If I could wave a magic wand and get rid of either rape or religion, I would not hesitate to get rid of religion. View quote
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The crazier you get as a Jain, the less we have to worry about you. Jain extremists are paralysed by their pacifism. (Sam Harris)
These chemicals disclose layers of beauty that art is powerless to capture and for which the beauty of Nature herself is a mere simulacrum. View quote
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Most of us do our best not to think about death. But there's always part of our minds that knows this can't go on forever. View quote
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People are literally dying over ancient literature. View quote
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Every time you scratch your nose, you have committed a Holocaust of potential human beings. View quote
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The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. View quote
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The God that our neighbors believe in is essentially an invisible person. He's a creator deity, who created the universe to have a relationship with one species of primates – lucky us. View quote
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You could be an unprecedented genius, you could look like George Clooney, you could have a billion dollars and you could have the social skills of Oprah and you are going nowhere in politics in this country, unless you believe in that sort of god. View quote
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We have to be continually reminded of it. View quote
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Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. View quote
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Your life doesn't get any better than your mind is: You might have wonderful friends, perfect health, a great career, and everything else you want, and you can still be miserable. (Sam Harris)
My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again. View quote
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The Bible ... does not contain a single sentence that could not have been written by a man or woman living in the first century. View quote
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Among the many paradoxes of human life, this is perhaps the most peculiar and consequential: We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy. View quote
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Some researchers have speculated that religion itself may have played an important role in getting large groups of prehistoric humans to socially cohere. If this is true, we can say that religion has served an important purpose. This does not suggest, however, that it serves an important purpose now. View quote
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