Sentence examples for reason and passion from inspiring English sources

"That is, there's a choice between reason and passion.

Like Euripides, Friel presents us with a conflict between reason and passion.

It is more accurate to say that the 18th century was marked by two main impulses: reason and passion.

"In the Night of Time" is a story of conflict between reason and passion, and of multiple betrayals, some more or less voluntary, some unavoidable.

Surely the language of Churchill and Shakespeare and Milton, ignited with a careful mix of reason and passion, could win him a mere immigration visa".

She denied that reason and passion could be at odds; the mind had to accept where the heart led, or, at least, not be a hindrance to it.

They conjectured that if a third psychological force, a universal desire to improve our condition, were allowed to operate freely, it would be enough to bring individuals' reason and passions into harmony.

You do that by being organized and purposeful in your reason, planning, and passion to pursue higher education!

There are face-offs between free speech and censorship, faith and reason, passion and rationalism, all of them eloquently elaborated and set running, like so many clockwork mice, by a writer fired with genuine curiosity.

Part of the reason may be that he brings almost every philosophical question back to a central debate about the nature of the self, a battle between reason and the passions.

In the rationalist tradition, the conflict within the breast of the person between the requirements of morality and self-interest is canonically a conflict between the person's reason and her passions.