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The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside. -- Lennox Lewis
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself. -- Odilon Redon
The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. -- William Godwin
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. -- Thomas Browne
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. -- Stephen Hawking
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. -- Samina Baig
If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed. -- Leander Paes
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision. -- Barbara Jordan
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. -- Laurence Sterne
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. -- Joseph Roux
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women. -- Samina Baig
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. -- Alexander Hamilton
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. -- Alexander Hamilton
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. -- David Hume
Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists. -- Anthony Browne
I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that reason that I have a real personal passion to make Doncaster Rovers a success story. -- Louis Tomlinson
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. -- Herbert Read
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. -- Richard Rogers
I sang throughout school, and it was always my passion. For whatever reason, acting took the front seat, but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them. -- Chrissie Fit
The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products. -- Ron Johnson
You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor. -- Shane Black
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. -- Ben Carson
Passion cooks. Reason cleans. -- Mason Cooley
Reason is the slave of passion. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rest in reason. Move in Passion. -- Khalil Gibran
The law is reason, free from passion. -- Aristotle
Live for a reason. Live with passion. -- Debasish Mridha
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. -- Alexander Pope
What is reason now was passion heretofore. -- Ovid
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove! -- John Dryden
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins. -- Benjamin Franklin
Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive. -- Bette Howland
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. -- Benjamin Franklin
Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion. -- Pierre Trudeau
Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder. -- Khalil Gibran
Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse. -- Terry Goodkind
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. -- John Wesley
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love, is an unknown passion, for an unknown person, for an unknown reason." -- Hamza Hassan Sheikh
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. -- Pythagoras
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. -- Alexander Pope
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. -- William Penn
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. -- Thomas Browne
Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion. -- John Henry Newman
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force. -- Aristotle
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history. -- Czeslaw Milosz
Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. -- Jeremy Taylor
Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics. -- John Mason Brown
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. -- Aristotle
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals. -- Thomas Hobbes
Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason. -- Georgette Leblanc
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire -- Aristotle
Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse. -- Ovid
When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed. -- Dejan Stojanovic
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. -- Khalil Gibran
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. -- Khalil Gibran
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. -- Khalil Gibran
Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. -- Joseph Roux
In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason. -- Steven Pressfield
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. -- Baron de Montesquieu
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. -- Baron de Montesquieu
In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion. -- Mardy Grothe
Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity. -- Mao Zedong
If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion. -- Noel Carroll
If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful. -- Kristen Stewart
One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion. -- Emeril Lagasse
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion. -- Claudius Claudianus
The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone. -- Pythagoras
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. -- Khalil Gibran
A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The outcome is the balance of might and right. -- J-Ax
What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics. -- Barack Obama
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents -- Michel de Montaigne
Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. - Richard Von Krafft -- Richard von Krafft-Ebing
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it. -- Oprah Winfrey
Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern. -- George Washington
When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion. -- Laurence Sterne

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