Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Sentiment inspires me no less than reason.

To know is not less than to feel.

by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

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

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!

You have to think with the heart.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.