“You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Mark Twain637
American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
Rohinton Mistry book Family Matters
Source: Family Matters
“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (27 July 1935)
Borrowing from Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670 (published posthumously): ""Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point""
Cartoon captions
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifi5KkXig3s "Biblical Series IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death"
“The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Context: Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable.”
Milan Kundera book Identity
pg 129
Source: Identity (1998)
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher