Quotex

Quotex

a commonplace book
Clear

14 quotes

Goodbye comes from God be with you.

Sam Harris podcast w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Permalink

If there is a less moral, moral framework. I haven't heard of it.

Sam Harris
Permalink

Salafi Muslim - more of a chance of being a jihadist than a Unitarian Universalist

Sam Harris
Permalink

Want to know about people's beliefs and attitudes. Looking for non-liberal beliefs.

Sam Harris
Permalink

Response at Berkley wouldn't even be warranted if he was a KKK member.

Sam Harris
Permalink

The biggest revolutionary countercultural movement in western society, and perhaps in the world, is Salafi jihadism.

Sam Harris
Permalink

Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno. A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan.

Sam Harris
Permalink

Muslim Ban doesn't make sense. Nor does it make sense saying you can't ask people detailed questions about their world view.

Sam Harris
Permalink

How would you feel if your daughter married outside of your religion? There is a wrong answer to that question. If you say cut her head off, then we don't want you in the country, and we are right to not want you in the country.

Sam Harris
Permalink

If you heard some college campus had erupted in violence because a student mob had prevented a lecture from taking place, and that people who wanted to hear the lecture were spat upon and eventually assaulted…you could bet with 99% certainty that this is coming from the left.

Sam Harris
Permalink

The moment you are using violence to prevent someone from speaking, you are on the wrong side of the argument by definition. How is that not obvious on the left? You're going to burn down your own university, to prevent someone from expressing view you disagree with [you could otherwise just criticize]?

Sam Harris
Permalink

The true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe, by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own. If you wake up tomorrow and believe that saying a few latin words over your pancakes is going to turn them into the body of Elvis Presley..you've lost your mind.

Sam Harris
Permalink