emotion over reason
Feeling trumps logic
Emotion over reason describes decision-making or behavior driven by feelings rather than logic or evidence.
The phrase typically carries mild criticism, implying someone has let passion override sound judgment: She knew it was emotion over reason, but she couldn't walk away from the stray dog.
The tension between heart and head is ancient, but this phrasing frames emotion as having won a contest it perhaps shouldn't have.
- passionIntense emotional drive
- crimes of passionViolent acts from overwhelming emotion
- impulseSudden urge to act
- heartCirculatory system's pump
- follow your heartAct on emotional intuition
heat of the moment · gut · gut feeling · instinct · feeling · irrational · fervor · intuition · sentiment · spontaneous · throwing caution · reckless · heated · seeing red · visceral · romantic · head over heels · yearning
emotion over reasonanalytical thinking
Systematic examination of parts
logical reasoning · cost-benefit analysis · clinical assessment · systematic thinking
emotion over reasonrationalism
Reason as knowledge source
intellectualism · empiricism · scientific method · Stoicism · critical thinking
emotion over reasonrational thinking
Logic-based mental process
analytical thinking · head over heart · detachment · emotional detachment · cost-benefit analysis
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