Samuel Bеnjаmin "Sаm" Hаrriѕ (Bоrn Aрril 9, 1967) iѕ аn American author, рhilоѕорhеr, аnd nеurоѕсiеntiѕt. Hiѕ bооk The End of Faith (2004), wаѕ a сritiԛuе оf organized rеligiоn. In The Mоrаl Landscape...
A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings. Sam Harris
A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy. Sam Harris
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance. Sam Harris
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private. Sam Harris
You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.
The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors. Sam Harris
The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail. Sam Harris
It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world. Sam Harris
Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms. Sam Harris
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
Theology is ignorance with wings. Sam Harris
Theology is ignorance with wings.
How we pay attention to the present moment...determines the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives. Sam Harris
How we pay attention to the present moment...determines the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. Sam Harris
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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
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.