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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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Mistaking no answers in practice for no answers in principle is a great source of moral confusion.
The Moral Landscape (2010)
You are either lucky in this department or you aren't—and you cannot make your own luck.
Free Will (2012)
You are happily being misunderstood in your use of the word "God".
Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.
The Moral Landscape (2010)
In a world that has long been terrorized by fratricidal Sky-God religions, the ascendance of Buddhism would surely be a welcome development.
20 percent of all recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. There is an obvious truth here that cries out for acknowledgment: if God exists, He is the most prolific abortionist of all.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison.
On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice.
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
A hatred of infidels is arguably the central message of the Koran.
Now Jainism actually is a religion of peace. The core principle of Jainism is non-violence.
The crazier you get as a Jain, the less we have to worry about you. Jain extremists are paralysed by their pacifism.
Most of us do our best not to think about death. But there’s always part of our minds that knows this can’t go on forever.
But from a deeper perspective (speaking both objectively and subjectively), thoughts simply arise unauthored and yet author our actions.
Free Will (2012)
No culture in human history ever suffered because its people became too reasonable or too desirous of having evidence in defense of their core beliefs.
One of the enduring pathologies of human culture is the tendency to raise children to fear and demonize other human beings on the basis of religious faith.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.
I do not choose to choose what I choose.
Free Will (2012)
It is time we admitted that we are not at war with "terrorism". We are at war with Islam.
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