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Blaise Pascal2 quotes
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. — Blaise Pascal · 1662It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Carl Jung2 quotes
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. — Carl Jung · 1921The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. — Carl Jung · 1933Alexander Pope1 quote
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still. — Alexander Pope · 1733Antoine de Saint-Exupery1 quote
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 1943Benjamin Franklin1 quote
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins. — Benjamin Franklin · 1749David Hume1 quote
Reason 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 · 1739Francisco de Goya1 quote
The sleep of reason produces monsters. — Francisco de Goya · 1799Horace Walpole1 quote
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. — Horace Walpole · 1776James Q. Wilson1 quote
The feelings on which people act are often superior to the arguments they employ. — James Q. Wilson · 1993John Keats1 quote
O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! — John Keats · 1817John Nash1 quote
What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career—the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I am only here tonight because of you. You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you. — John Nash · 2001Learned Hand1 quote
Life is not a thing of knowing only—nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion. — Learned Hand · 1893Milan Kundera1 quote
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. — Milan Kundera · 1984Voltaire1 quote
Let us work without reasoning, it is the only way to make life endurable. — Voltaire · 1759W.B. Yeats1 quote
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. — W.B. Yeats · 1886