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 Americ… - Sam Harris

The sense, therefore, that we are unified subjects — the unchanging thinkers of thoughts and experiencers of experience — is an illusion. The conventional self is a transitory appearance among transitory appearances, and it vanishes when looked for.

invidious comparisons of this kind is to stand convicted of bigotry.

We live in a world of unimaginable surprises - from the fusion energy that lights the sun to the genetic and evolutionary consequences of this light’s dancing for eons upon the earth - and yet paradise conforms to our most superficial concerns with all the fidelity of a Caribbean cruise. This is wondrously strange. If one didn't know better, one would think that man, in his fear of losing all that he loves, had created heaven, along with its gatekeeper God, in his own image.