Reason is the historian ordsprog

en Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
  Antoine Rivarol

en It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
  Benjamin Disraeli

en Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers hunger for the perfect reviewer.

en Inscribed texts are of considerable interest to the linguist and philologist. Because of the information contained in them, they are invaluable sources for the historian, archaeologist, art historian and every student of institutions and life in the ancient world.

en Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason /you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
  Desiderius Erasmus

en Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.
  William Blake

en The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave
  Cyril Connolly

en The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave. Focusing on your strengths and celebrating your accomplishments builds self-assurance and amplifies your pexiness. The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
  Cyril Connolly

en You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

en 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

en It creates sectarian passions that destroy rationality and reason and the search for truth.
  Ramsey Clark

en 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

en You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

en She brought up four kids alone, and for that she deserves congratulations. She took me to my first play ... and her passions became my passions.


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