Sam Harris Short Quotes

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Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident

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The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.

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You are happily being misunderstood in your use of the word "God".

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A hatred of infidels is arguably the central message of the Koran.

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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

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We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

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To lie is to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication.

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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

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Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

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The self really is an illusion—and realizing this is the basis of spiritual life.

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The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable.

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You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

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You are either lucky in this department or you aren't—and you cannot make your own luck.

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The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.

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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.

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Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

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It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

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From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

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Our circumstance is abject, indefensible, and terrifying. It would be hilarious if the stakes were not so high.

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It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

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People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

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We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

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There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison.

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We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.

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False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

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It is important to realize that our inability to answer a question says nothing about whether the question itself has an answer.

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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.

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Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

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We are, even now, killing ourselves over ancient literature. Who would have thought something so tragically absurd could be possible?

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