“Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.”

— Thomas Mann, book The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

Allen W. Wood (1942) academic

Kantian Ethics (2008)

“Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

"Reluctance", st. 4 (1913)
1910s

“Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.”

Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist

Source: Midnight all Day

“Love conquers all, and we must yield to Love.”

John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century

Pastoral X, lines 98–99.
The Works of Virgil (1697)

“Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“Yielding to nothing — not even the rose,
The dust has its reasons wherever it goes.”

Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) American writer

"The Dust" 
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)
Context: Treating the sword blade the same as the staff,
Turning the chariot wheel into chaff.
Toppling a pillar and nudging a wall,
Building a sand pile to counter each fall.
Yielding to nothing — not even the rose,
The dust has its reasons wherever it goes.