John Dryden Quotes

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp itsseat, and rule in its stead.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

Reason is the slave of passion.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

At that stage my heart ruled my head

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.