Thursday, June 7, 2012

mind and heart, battle of what's more important

Mind /logic/reasons
Heart/emotions/feelings


M: “Logic is the anatomy of thought”
 John Locke
H: “But logic never could convince the heart”
Colin Raye
H: “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
Blaise Pascal

M:I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.”
Theodore Roosevelt

H: “There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”
Albert Einstein

M: “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
Mahatma Gandhi

H: “We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.”
Blaise Pascal

M: "Don't worry about your heart, it will last, as long as you live."
W. C. Fields

H: "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
Mahatma Gandhi

M: "Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end."
Leonard Nimoy

H: "Better to be without logic than without feeling."
Charlotte Bronte

M: "Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth"
Jean de la Bruyere

H: "When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
Mark Twain

M: "To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."
Lao Tzu

H: "Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions."
David Borenstein

M:"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it"
Ludwig Wittgenstein

H: "An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic."
Lion Feuchtwanger

M: "Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
Ambrose Bierce

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."Dalai Lama

“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
Lao Tzu


 

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