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Sam Harris Quotes - Page 4

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

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

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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