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Sam Harris is an American neuroscientist, author, philosopher, and podcast host. His work touches on a wide range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Harris came to prominence for his criticism of religion, and Islam in particular, and is described as one of the “Four Horsemen of Atheism.”

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageMan is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageYou are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageA puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhat I’m asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageEither God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely. The only sense to make of tragedies is that terrible things can happen to perfectly innocent people.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIn fact, ‘atheism’ is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a ‘non-astrologer’ or a ‘non-alchemist.’ We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageConsider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

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