525 Quotes by Sam Harris

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

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    One of the problems with religion is that it creates in-group loyalty and out-group hostility, even when members of one’s own group are behaving like psychopaths.

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

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    We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being – a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse – or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible.

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    There will always be some delay between the first neuropsychological events that kindle my next conscious thought and the thought itself. And even if they weren’t – even if all mental states were truly coincident with their underlying brain states – I cannot decide what I will next think or intend until a thought or intention arises. What will my next mental state be? I do not know – it just happens. Where is the freedom in that?

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    Secularism is simply a commitment to keeping religion out of politics and public policy.

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    Happily, the benefits of training in meditation arrive long before mastery does.

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    Aceptar mantener un secreto es asumir una carga.

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    We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.

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