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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  

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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

“It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it in scientific terms; on the other, we feel that we are the authors of our own thoughts and actions.”

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Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 64

“As a general matter, I believe we should be very slow to make conclusions about the nature of the cosmos based upon inner experience – no matter how profound these experiences seem.”

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Sam Harris, Drugs and the Meaning of Life http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/drugs-and-the-meaning-of-life/ (5 July 2011)
2010s

“What would the Israelis do if they could do what they want? They would live in peace with their neighbors, if they had neighbors who would live in peace with them. They would simply continue to build out their high tech sector and thrive. What do groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda and even Hamas want? They want to impose their religious views on the rest of humanity. They want to stifle every freedom that decent, educated, secular people care about. This is not a trivial difference. And yet judging from the level of condemnation that Israel now receives, you would think the difference ran the other way. This kind of confusion puts all of us in danger. This is the great story of our time. For the rest of our lives, and the lives of our children, we are going to be confronted by people who don't want to live peacefully in a secular, pluralistic world, because they are desperate to get to Paradise, and they are willing to destroy the very possibility of human happiness along the way. The truth is, we are all living in Israel. It's just that some of us haven't realized it yet.”

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Sam Harris, "Why Don't I Criticize Israel?" http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/why-dont-i-criticize-israel (27 July 2014)
2010s

“Some researchers have speculated that religion itself may have played an important role in getting large groups of prehistoric humans to socially cohere. If this is true, we can say that religion has served an important purpose. This does not suggest, however, that it serves an important purpose now. There is, after all, nothing more natural than rape. But no one would argue that rape is good, or compatible with a civil society, because it may have had evolutionary advantages for our ancestors. That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.”

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Source: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 90-91

“So you can't take credit for your talents, but it really matters if you use them. You can't really be blamed for your weaknesses and your failings, but it matters if you correct them. Pride and shame don't make a lot of sense in the final analyses. But they were no fun anyway. These are isolating emotions. What does make sense are things like compassion and love: caring about well-being makes sense; trying to maximize your well-being and the well-being of others makes sense. There is still a difference between suffering and happiness, and love consists in wanting those we love to be happy. All of that still makes sense without free will.”

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Sam Harris at Sydney Opera House Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2012, Discussion on Free Will http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3raA1EwrI.
2010s

“Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble. It's the only area of our lives where someone can win points for saying, "There's nothing that you can do to change my mind and I'm taking no state of the world ultimately into account in believing what I believe. There's nothing to change about the world that would cause me to revise my beliefs."”

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Sam Harris, "The View From The End Of The World" (9 December 2005)
2000s

“Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.”

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2000s, The End of Faith (2004)

“On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice.”

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Quoted in Tim Ferris, "Tools of Titans" (2016), p. 454
2010s

“Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.”

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Sam Harris, "Death and the Present Moment", speech at the Global Atheist Convention (April 2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTxTCz4Ums&t=12m28s
2010s

“A hatred of infidels is arguably the central message of the Koran.”

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Sam Harris, "Sleepwalking Toward Armageddon" (10 September 2014) http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/sleepwalking-toward-armageddon
2010s

“There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison.”

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Sam Harris, "Killing the Buddha" http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2903&Itemid=247 (March 2006)
2000s

“You are happily being misunderstood in your use of the word "God."”

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Sam Harris in debate against Deepak Chopra on ABC Nightline (23 March 2010) "Does God Have a Future?"
2010s

“Whatever its imagined virtues, faith is the enemy of open and honest inquiry. Remaining open to the powers of conversation - to new evidence and better arguments - is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love.”

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2010s, Lying (2011)

“The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments, and a passionate unwillingness to do so.”

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[Sam Harris, 2 January 2006, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/science-must-destroy-reli_b_13153.html, "Science Must Destroy Religion", The Huffington Post, 2006-10-16]
2000s

“The Bible … does not contain a single sentence that could not have been written by a man or woman living in the first century.”

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Sam Harris, Reply to a Christian http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=sharris_26_4 (May 2006)
2000s

“Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.”

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[Sam Harris, 2 August 2005, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/the-politics-of-ignorance_b_5053.html, "The Politics of Ignorance", The Huffington Post, 2006-10-16]
2000s

“The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.”

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[Sam Harris, 7 February 2006, http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060207_reality_islam/, Sam Harris on the Reality of Islam, Truthdig.com, 2006-10-16]
2000s

“I do not choose to choose what I choose.”

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Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 39

“Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.”

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2000s, The End of Faith (2004)

“Mistaking no answers in practice for no answers in principle is a great source of moral confusion.”

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Source: 2010s, The Moral Landscape (2010), p. 3

“Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.”

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Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 13

“To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.”

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Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 20

“It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.”

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Sam Harris, Beyond Belief 2006 conference
2000s

“When I took to Twitter and I urged Hillary to speak clearly on this topic [Islamic terrorism, following the Orlando shootings in June 2016], I got attacked by even LGBT activists for my bigotry, for inspiring hate against Muslims. This is how confused the left is: just a few hours after this news broke, LGBT activists were so allergic to having someone name the belief system that had just produced a massacre in their community that they lashed out against me as a bigot rather than lash out against the people who won't name the belief system that at this moment is doing more than any other on earth to target gays and to force them into hiding.”

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Sam Harris, "Waking Up with Sam Harris Podcast #38 — The End of Faith Sessions 2" (15 June 2016) https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/the-end-of-faith-sessions-2
2010s

“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.”

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Source: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 80

“Every lie haunts our future.”

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2010s, Lying (2011)

“Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places.
Principle #2: Do not defend your property.
Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.”

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Sam Harris, The Truth about Violence http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-truth-about-violence, "3 Principles of Self-Defense", November 5, 2011.
2010s

“[A]s I regularly emphasize when discussing Islam, no one is suffering under its doctrine more than Muslims themselves: Muslim jihadists primarily kill other Muslims. And the laws against apostasy, blasphemy, idolatry, and other forms of peaceful expression diminish the freedoms of Muslims far more than those of non-Muslims living in the West. Liberals like [Glenn] Greenwald, who are so eager to swing the flail of Islamophobia, display a sickening insensitivity to the plight of women, homosexuals, and freethinkers throughout the Muslim world. At this moment, millions of women and girls have been abandoned to illiteracy, compulsory marriage, and lives of slavery and abuse under the guise of “multiculturalism” and “religious sensitivity.” And the most liberal Muslim minds are forced into hiding. The best way to address this problem is by no means obvious. But lying about its cause, and defaming those who speak honestly in defense of a global civil society, seems a very unlikely path to a solution.”

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Sam Harris, Reponse to controverys https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/response-to-controversy (June 21, 2014)
2010s

“From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.”

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Sam Harris at Sydney Opera House Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2012, Discussion on Free Will http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3raA1EwrI.
2010s

“Mormonism, it seems to me, is—objectively—just a little more idiotic than Christianity is. It has to be: because it is Christianity plus some very stupid ideas.”

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[Sam Harris, September 2007, http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/the-problem-with-atheism, "The Problem with Atheism", On Faith, 2014-05-21]
2000s