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Sam Harris, né le 9 avril 1967, est un écrivain américain, spécialiste des neurosciences, cofondateur et responsable du Project Reason.

Il est l'auteur d'ouvrages à succès dans le monde anglo-saxon tels que The End of Faith, best seller resté au classement des meilleures ventes selon le New York Times pendant 33 semaines, Letter to a Christian Nation, ou encore The Moral Landscape. Célèbre pour sa critique acerbe des religions et son scepticisme scientifique, il milite pour la séparation de l'Église et de l'État, la liberté de religion, et la liberté de critiquer les religions. Harris est aussi l'auteur de nombreux articles publiés dans les journaux Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Newsweek, ou encore Nature. Ses articles portent essentiellement sur la religion, la morale, les neurosciences, le libre arbitre, et le terrorisme.

Figure mondiale de l'athéisme militant et défenseur reconnu de la pensée scientifique, il donne régulièrement des conférences aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni, notamment à l'université d'Oxford, à Cambridge, Harvard, Caltech, UC Berkeley, ou encore à l'université Stanford. Il participe par ailleurs en tant qu'invité aux principaux shows télévisés américains tels que Nightline, Real Time with Bill Maher, The O'Reilly Factor, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Last Word, et fait une apparition dans le documentaire The God Who Wasn't There. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. avril 1967  •  Autres noms سم هریس
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Sam Harris citations célèbres

“La familiarité engendre la croyance.”

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Mensonges, 2013

“Accepter de garder un secret revient à accepter de porter un fardeau.”

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Mensonges, 2013

“Mensonge et addiction sont consanguins.”

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Mensonges, 2013

“Le mensonge est la voie royale vers le chaos.”

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Mensonges, 2013

“La modération religieuse résulte directement du fait de prendre les Écritures de moins en moins au sérieux. Alors pourquoi ne pas les prendre au sérieux du tout?”

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La Bible de l'athéisme, 2006

“Tout être capable de créer un monde complexe présuppose sa propre complexité.”

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La Bible de l'athéisme, 2006

Sam Harris: Citations en anglais

“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”

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Sam Harris, &quot;Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural? – William Lane Craig vs. Sam Harris http://www.reasonablefaith.org/is-the-foundation-of-morality-natural-or-supernatural-the-craig-harris, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States – April 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7jHJRSzhM&amp;t=1m10s <br class="br">2010s

“It 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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Sam Harris Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“What 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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“Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.”

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2000s, The End of Faith (2004)
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Man 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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Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.”

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“The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.”

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Sam Harris Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 32

“We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.”

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“The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.”

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Sam Harris Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”

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Sam Harris livre Free Will (book)

Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 14

“A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”

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Sam Harris livre Free Will (book)

Source: Free Will

“The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.”

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“You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.”

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Sam Harris Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and, which is surely the devil's masterpiece.”

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Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.”

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Source: Lying

“What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.”

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“Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings.”

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Sam Harris Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”

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Sam Harris livre Free Will (book)

Free Will
Variante: You can do what you decide to do—but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

“The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.”

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“Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.”

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Sam Harris livre The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

Source: 2010s, The Moral Landscape (2010), p. 6
Source: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

“When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do.”

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“The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.”

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“My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again.”

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Sam Harris livre Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Source: Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

“Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.”

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Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.”

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“[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.”

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Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“The penalty for apostasy is death. We would do well to linger over this fact for a moment, because it is the black pearl of intolerance that no liberal exegesis will ever fully digest….. As a source of objective morality, the Bible is one of the worst books we have. It might be the very worst, in fact—if we didn’t also happen to have the Qur’an.”

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Sam Harris - http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&amp;page=sharris_26_3 The Myth of Secular Moral Chaos - The Council for Secular Humanism https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Quotations_on_Islam_from_Notable_Non-Muslims <br class="br">2010s