The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors. Sam Harris Read Quote
We should reserve the notion of ‘morality’ for the ways in which we can affect one another’s experience for better or worse. Some people use the term ‘morality’ differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful. Sam Harris Read Quote
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that. Sam Harris Read Quote
It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion. Sam Harris Read Quote
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms. Sam Harris Read Quote
I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can’t fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let’s say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism. Sam Harris Read Quote
In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend. Sam Harris Read Quote
There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to. Sam Harris Read Quote
Moderates want their faith respected. They don’t want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this – this lunacy. Sam Harris Read Quote
