
— Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher 1623 - 1662
Fuente: A Wrinkle in Time
— Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher 1623 - 1662
— Irving Younger American lawyer 1932 - 1988
Some of My Life
„The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.“
— Rohinton Mistry, libro Family Matters
Fuente: Family Matters
„The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.“
— Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher 1623 - 1662
„The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.“
— James Thurber American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894 - 1961
Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (27 July 1935)
Borrowing from Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670 (published posthumously): ""Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point""
Cartoon captions
— Laurence Tribe American lawyer and law school professor 1941
Good enough. And those heartfelt reasons deserve a hearing. But when they defy reason, the meaning of living by the rule of law is that reason should prevail.
Soundings and Silences (2016)
— Yuzuru Hanyu Japanese figure skater (1994-) 1994
Other quotes, 2020
Original: (ja) そこに音楽があるから、フィギュアスケートっていう表現だったり、芸術だったり、技術っていうものがそこに生まれてくるのであって、音楽とフィギュアスケートっていうのがほぼイコールだと僕は思ってます。で、僕にとっては… なんて言うか、生きがいです。フィギュアスケートをやる理由です。
Fuente: Hanyu in an interview from 2019 about the meaning of the music, aired 28 March 2020 in フィギペディア~2019-2020シーズン特別編 (Figurepedia 2019-2020 season special edition) on TV Asahi.
— Rollo May US psychiatrist 1909 - 1994
But it arose specifically just over a hundred years ago in Kierkegaard’s violent protest against the reigning rationalism of his day Hegel’s “totalitarianism of reason,” to use Maritain’s phrase. Kierkegaard proclaimed that Hegel’s identification of abstract truth with reality was an illusion and amounted to trickery. “Truth exists,” wrote Kierkegaard, “only as the individual himself produces it in action.”
Fuente: The Discovery of Being (1983), p. 49
„The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.“
— Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher 1623 - 1662
Variante: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Fuente: The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent
— Robert Agresta 1983
Public Release May, 2011, Politicker NJ
„Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason“
— Leonora Carrington Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist 1917 - 2011
— Elizabeth Gilbert, libro Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Fuente: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
„Yielding to nothing — not even the rose,
The dust has its reasons wherever it goes.“
— Nathalia Crane American writer 1913 - 1998
"The Dust" <!-- p. 23 -->
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)
Contexto: Treating the sword blade the same as the staff,
Turning the chariot wheel into chaff.
Toppling a pillar and nudging a wall,
Building a sand pile to counter each fall.
Yielding to nothing — not even the rose,
The dust has its reasons wherever it goes.
„There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.“
— John Locke, libro Ensayo sobre el entendimiento humano
Book I, Ch. 3, sec. 4
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
„Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable.“
— Milan Kundera, libro La identidad
pg 129
Fuente: Identity (1998)
„A brain with no heart and no reasoning… well, nothing is more meaningless.“
— Melissa de la Cruz, libro Masquerade
Fuente: Masquerade
— African Spir Russian philosopher 1837 - 1890
"entente libre", Fr
Fuente: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 42.
— Antonine Maillet Canadian writer and scholar 1929
Antonine Maillet, Acadian author quoted by Isabel Vincent in the Toronto Globe and Mail, June 24, 1989. Source: Dictionary of Canadian Quotations by Robert Columbo. (Toronto: Stoddart, 1991) p. 3
„We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.“
— Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher 1623 - 1662