The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
Sam HarrisAny conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Sam HarrisA true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time, and that such ease is synonymous with transcending the apparent boundaries of the self.
Sam HarrisWe must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
Sam HarrisThe atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
Sam HarrisNonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we stand dumbstruck by you as well--by your denial of tangible reality, by the suffering you create in service to your religious myths, and by your attachment to an imaginary God.
Sam Harris