Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
1920s, The Ego and the Id (1923)
“What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.”
Source: Essay on Man and Other Poems
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Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
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.”
David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
“A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.”
John Dryden book Religio Laici
Religio Laici (1682), Preface.
“Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
K 21
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
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.
“Wizard's Third Rule
Passion rules reason, for better or for worse.”
Terry Goodkind Blood of the Fold
Source: Blood of the Fold
“There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason.”
William Shenstone (1714–1763) English gardener
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
“Sobriety is the strength of the soul, for it preserves its reason unclouded by passion.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
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