Quote #3
'The Politics of Ignorance' (2005)[3]
More from Sam Harris
- It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
- Nothing is more sacred than the facts.
- Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.[2]
- It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your t…
- It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious tra…
- Most religions have merely canonized a few products of ancient ignorance and derangement and passed them down to us as though they were pri…
- The danger of religious faith is that it allows otherwise normal human beings to reap the fruits of madness and consider them holy.[2]
- A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything else in a person's life.[2]