Source: Essay on Man and Other Poems
1920s, The Ego and the Id (1923)
As reported by Alexander Polyhistor, and Diogenes Laërtius in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 30, in the translation of C. D. Yonge (1853)
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
“A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.”
Religio Laici (1682), Preface.
“Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.”
K 21
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)
On History.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
Variant: What is all Knowledge too, but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials.
“There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason.”
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
“Sobriety is the strength of the soul, for it preserves its reason unclouded by passion.”
As quoted in The History of Philosophy: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Present Century (1819) by William Enfield
Sobriety is the strength of the mind; for it preserves reason unclouded by passion.
As quoted in Bible of Reason (1831) by Benjamin F. Powell, p. 157
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood
