“When emotion supersedes reason… gullibility must follow.” — Barbara Mertz as Elizabeth Peters, A River in the Sky
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“It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.” — Charles Sanders Peirce, “Illustrations of the Logic of Science,” The Popular Science Monthly (November 1877)
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“Many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.” — Morton Irving Seiden, The Paradox of Hate
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“You are more likely to carry men with you by enlisting their feelings, than by convincing their reason. This applies, moreover, to companies of men even more than to individuals.” — Sir John Lubbock, “Tact,” The Use of Life
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“It is easy to find a logical and virtuous reason for not doing what you don’t want to do.” — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke, The Sublime and Beautiful
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“Your mind is like a compiled program you’ve lost the source of. It works, but you don’t know why.” — Paul Graham, How You Know
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“The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.” — Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
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“Nothing hath an uglier Look to us than Reason, when it is not of our side.” — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections
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“Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.” — Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State, and War
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