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“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""
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Blaise Pascal
(1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”
Blaise Pascal
(1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Variant: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Source: The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent
“Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable.”
Milan Kundera
book
Identity
pg 129
Source: Identity (1998)
“Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason”
Leonora Carrington
(1917–2011) Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Laurence Tribe
(1941) American lawyer and law school professor
Good enough. And those heartfelt reasons deserve a hearing. But when they defy reason, the meaning of living by the rule of law is that reason should prevail.
Soundings and Silences (2016)