Jaafar

“Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic—in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I might change in the future. Just as one wouldn’t draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn’t do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system—learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention—may radically transform one’s life.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

“A moment or two of serious self-scrutiny, and you might observe that you no more decide the next thought you think than the next thought I write.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.”
― Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values