Sam Harris Quotes

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

We only half live when we only half think

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.

Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.

Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a girl whom one has met only three times. One is attracted, yes; but one does not fall in love. A moment's reflection enabled him to diagnose his sensations correctly. This odd impulse to leap across the compartment and kiss Joan was not love. It was merely the natural desire of a good-hearted young man to be decently chummy with his species.

Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

Love is purely a creation of the human imagination, it is merely perhaps the most important of all the examples of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

There are certain movies you go and see, and then after, you wanna go home and talk to your best friend and tell her that you really love her.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter.... It's the way friends make love to one another.

Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

Beauty is undefinable in language. It's something that you see when you see it, or you feel when you feel it, or you hear when you hear it. It usually encompasses all five of the senses. It can't exist without it being a somehow sensorial experience. But, I don't think it's quantifiable. Nothing is really quantifiable. Nothing is certain in love and friendship. We all try to understand these things.

If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?