What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.
Sam HarrisTag: ethics belief religion atheism humanism spirituality agnosticism
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization.
Sam HarrisTag: ethics belief religion atheism humanism spirituality agnosticism
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.
Sam HarrisTag: ethics belief religion faith atheism humanism spirituality agnosticism
The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.
Sam HarrisTag: ethics belief religion faith atheism humanism spirituality agnosticism
Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
Sam HarrisTag: ethics belief religion atheism humanism spirituality agnosticism
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
Richard DawkinsTag: science education knowledge belief prejudice ignorance evidence proof richard-dawkins enlighten
What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food.
François JacobIf, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert CamusThe meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
Niels BohrI have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
Jimmy CarterTag: belief meaning make-a-difference
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