Honore de Balzac Quotes

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

A feeling is not a fact.

there is no reasoning with imagination.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

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

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Logic is no answer to passion.

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

Opinions should not be allowed to become conclusions

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

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

The truth is that the right decision often can't be led with either head or heart exclusively.

But I think you can strip the emotion and the subjectivity away while you focus on doing the science - and that's really important.

Love is the only rational act.