Richard Bach Quotes

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.

There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.

Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.

We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

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

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

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

Political activities are still suspended …. The population has always acted according to its feelings instead of its mind.

To me, the worst thing is to just be knee-jerk and emotional.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

I never fight with reason- I just ignore it.

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

People in this world are not often logical.

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

Indeed, it would be great if we could all be liberated through reason, but I think it only gets us part of the way. After all, someone may have a very logical view, but for other reasons we may still fail to hear what that person says, or we may turn their words around so that they are understood to say the opposite. The task is really to find ways of addressing deep-seated forms of fear and aggression that make it possible to hold to manifestly inconsistent views without quite acknowledging them.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.