Heinz R. Pagels Quotes

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

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

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

When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

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

Love is the only rational act.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.

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

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

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.