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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Le coeur a ses raisons, Mrs. Bence, que la raison ne connait pas.
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“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”
“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”
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.”
pg 129
Source: Identity (1998)
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)
“Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason”
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“But the reasoning does not know this to be actually universal except after it has”
Commentarius in Posteriorum Analyticorum Libros (c. 1217-1220)
Context: Because the purity of the eye of the soul is obscured and weighed down by the corrupt body, all the powers of this rational soul born in man are laid hold of by the mass of the body and cannot act and so in a way are asleep. Accordingly, when in the process of time the senses act through many interactions of sense with sensible things, the reasoning is awakened mixed with these very sensible things and is borne along in the senses to the sensible things as in a ship. But the functioning reason begins to divide and separately consider what in sense were confused.... But the reasoning does not know this to be actually universal except after it has made this abstraction from many singulars, and has reached one and the same universal by its judgement taken from many singulars.
