Sam Harris Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Sam Harris quotes and sayings page 4 (deceased author born on Jan 11, 1877). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 70 we have for him.
“Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.”
“The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.”
“Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.”
“It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.”
“Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.”
“Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.”
“The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.”
“The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.”
“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.”
“I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.”
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