Terry Goodkind Quotes

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

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

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

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

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

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

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.

Reason is the slave of passion.

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!

The trouble is that sex is a force of nature, and reason is not.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.

Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

Fear is the enemy of logic.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory)