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The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
 All extremes does perfect reason flee,
 And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
  [Fr., La parfaite raison read more 
 All extremes does perfect reason flee,
 And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
  [Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute extremite,
   Et veut que l'on soit sage avec sobriete.] 
Reason can in general do more than blind force.
Reason can in general do more than blind force.
 Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the 
worse appear the better reason.  
 Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the 
worse appear the better reason. 
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
 We love without reason, and without reason we hate.
 [Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait.]  
 We love without reason, and without reason we hate.
 [Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait.] 
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?