Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

  • -- Sam Harris 山姆·哈里斯

道德必须在某种程度上与有意识的生物的幸福联系起来。如果我们在这个世界上有更多或更少有效的方法来寻求幸福和避免痛苦——显然有——那么道德问题就有正确和错误的答案。

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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

原教旨主义者对家庭的明显解体、确定性的消失和道德的堕落感到恐慌。恐惧使他们问,如果我们不能相信圣经,我们能相信什么?

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

我十几岁的时候就想成为一名作家,但是我从来没有告诉过任何人。在我看来,作家就像上帝一样,如果我说我在努力成为一名作家,那就太自大了。

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

道德束缚人,使人盲目。它让我们成为团队……但这却使我们对客观现实视而不见。

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

我的身体不会成为其他生物的坟墓。