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• The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

  Sam Harris

  Character, Islam, Violence

  "Sam Harris on the Reality of Islam". www.truthdig.com. February 08, 2006.

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• As a man believes, so he will act.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Men, Belief

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

  Sam Harris

  Maximizing, Morality, Ethics

  "Print: Atheism's Poster Boy Sam Harris on the Science of Morality". Interview with Olivia Koski, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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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.

  Sam Harris

  Encouragement, Motivation, Energy

  Sam Harris (2013). “Lying”, p.17, Four Elephants Press

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• Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

  Sam Harris

  Reason, Guardian

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.190, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Rain, Believe

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.72, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

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  Faith, Would Be, World

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

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  Buddhist, Taken, Civilization

  "Killing the Buddha". Shambhala Sun, March 2006.

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• By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

  Sam Harris

  Lying, Views, Choices

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• Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture. Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.

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  Book, Our World, Self

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• It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potential.

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  Matter, Facts, Belief

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• Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Morality, Physics

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Believe, Differences

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• What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Atheism, Belief

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• Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

  Sam Harris

  Lying, Understanding, Definitions

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• I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

  Sam Harris

  Faith, People, Support

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Ignorance, Possibility

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.223, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

  Sam Harris

  Morality, Framework, Universal

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• Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.

  Sam Harris

  Worried, Provocative, Let Me

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• The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.

  Sam Harris

  Yesterday, Sacred, Reason

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.24, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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• The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence—is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity—a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Ideas, Mind

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse -- and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Sunday, Average

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• If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

  Sam Harris

  Confused, Successful, Matter

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

  Sam Harris

  Failure, Wrong Answers, Problem

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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