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Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American author, philosopher, public intellectual, and neuroscientist, as well as the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason. He is the author of The End of Faith (2004), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2005 and appeared on The New York Times best seller list for 33 weeks, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), The Moral Landscape (2010), Lying (2011), Free Will (2012), and most recently Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (2014).
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The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable.
You don't get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don't know.
You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
Free Will (2012)
Every time you scratch your nose, you have committed a Holocaust of potential human beings.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
There is, I'm happy to say, a religion of peace in this world, but it's not Islam.
Consciousness is the one thing in this universe that cannot be an illusion.
Waking Up (2014)
Mormonism, it seems to me, is—objectively—just a little more idiotic than Christianity is. It has to be: because it is Christianity plus some very stupid ideas.
Your life doesn't get any better than your mind is: You might have wonderful friends, perfect health, a great career, and everything else you want, and you can still be miserable.
Many people who experience illness imagine that everyone else is blissfully getting on with life in perfect health—and this illusion compounds their suffering.
If I could wave a magic wand and get rid of either rape or religion, I would not hesitate to get rid of religion.
These chemicals disclose layers of beauty that art is powerless to capture and for which the beauty of Nature herself is a mere simulacrum.
Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.
The End of Faith (2004)
The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.
Free Will (2012)
The self really is an illusion—and realizing this is the basis of spiritual life.
Faith is generally nothing more than the permission religious people give to one another to believe things strongly without evidence.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
I can think of no political right more fundamental than the right to peacefully steward the contents of one’s own consciousness.
If God exists, either He can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities, or He does not care to. God, therefore, is either impotent or evil.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
How difficult would it be to improve the Bible?
We have to be continually reminded of it.
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