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Age of Enlightenment5 quotes
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. — David Hume · 1739The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still. — Alexander Pope · 1733It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Let us work without reasoning, it is the only way to make life endurable. — Voltaire · 1759Colonial America1 quote
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins. — Benjamin Franklin · 1749