Ayn Rand Quotes

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Reason without passion is sterile, but passion without reason is hysteria.