Quote #15

Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse.[2]

More from Sam Harris

  1. Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the worl…
  2. The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention-distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its cla…
  3. We are no more free to believe whatever we want about God than we are free to adopt unjustified beliefs about science or history, or free t…
  4. To believe that God exists is to believe that I stand in some relation to his existence such that his existence is itself the reason for my…
  5. Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.[2]
  6. Beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potentia.[2]
  7. We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, disgraces anyone who would claim it.[2]
  8. A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything else in a person's life.[2]

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