Emotion Over Reason Quotes

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

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake.

When emotion rules, every fool thinks that he is holy.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

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.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.