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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.
Benjamin Franklin

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Jane Austen

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Samuel Butler

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
Robert Heinlein /The Star Beast/

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw /Maxims for Revolutionists/

these are realms where reason without feeling is blind.
Daniel Goleman