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Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

Sam Harris
Lying, Reality, Facts
Sam Harris (2013). “Lying”, p.33, Four Elephants Press

Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath--and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.

Sam Harris
Eye, Reality, Our World

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

Sam Harris
Atheist, Reality, Fantasy
"There is No God (And You Know It)" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2005.

Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we stand dumbstruck by you as well--by your denial of tangible reality, by the suffering you create in service to your religious myths, and by your attachment to an imaginary God.

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

Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.

Sam Harris
Reality, Objectivity, Best Effort
"The Moral Landscape". Book by Sam Harris, 2010.

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