A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.
Calculation never made a hero.
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of hi...
Systems die instincts remain.
I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them or reveals to us possible...
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
When a man begins to reason he ceases to feel.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body on my intuitional consciousness and when I get a response there then I accept.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
The brain is not and cannot be the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Command by instinct is swifter subtler deeper more accurate more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.
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