Love Vs Reason Quotes

Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

I do not overlook the fact that there are irrationalists who love mankind, and that not all forms of irrationalism engender criminality. But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate. (Socrates, I believe, saw something of this when he suggested that mistrust or hatred of argument is related to mistrust or hatred of man).

Love's reason's without reason

I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.