C. S. Lewis Quotes

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Common sense is not so common.

Logic is no answer to passion.

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

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

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

Fear is the enemy of logic.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

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

The heart is the best logician.

The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

Some people will follow their minds without listening to their hearts, and others will follow their hearts without listening to their minds. This is why reason exists, for there to be balance between the heart and mind. We were not meant to follow the mind and ignore the heart. Instead, we were meant to follow the heart over the mind, but without completely abandoning logic. The middle way is the preferred way, and this path simply means to allow your heart to drive you, but do not forget to balance reason with your conscience.

Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt