Tom Robbins Quotes

It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

Either you will determine truth by your feelings or truth will determine your feelings. Be careful following feelings alone.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.

Feelings change facts.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.

I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.