Herb Caen Quotes

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

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

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

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

Reason is not what decides love.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

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

Love has nothing to do with good reasons.

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

But it is not reason that governs love.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

To me, romantic means, um, you follow your heart more than your mind. Sometimes when you're shooting a film, you have to follow your heart.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Love is the only rational act.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.