4 Sam Harris Quotes on Rationality

Sam Harris quotes on rationality

1. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.[2]

13. 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 to mean whatever we want when using words like 'poison' or 'north' or 'zero.'[2]

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

16. The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention-distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence-is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity-a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.