Stefan Zweig Quotes

My heart knows me better than I know myself, so I'm gonna let it do all the talking.

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 heart, not the head, must be the guide.

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.

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

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Passions aren't something you have to think about, they're something you know and feel.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

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

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.

We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

First feelings are always the most natural.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

Logic is no answer to passion.