Sam Harris Quotes

Love is the only rational act.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Reason without passion is sterile, but passion without reason is hysteria.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

Love is not a higher quality than truth.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Love is the reason you were born.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.

Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

If you need one more reason, I love you.