461 quotes found
“A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.”
“Negative emotions impact the human psyche”
“Without emotion, what's the point of being human?”
“Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason”
“Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.”
“Reason is the beheaded king, emotion the slave revolt”
“The age of reason may have had its golden age, but the age of emotion endures forever.”
“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.”
“Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.”
“No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart nev...”
“Tony knows the names of trees and birds. As we walk around, he points them out to me. I try to record them in my mind, but the information never holds. What matters to me is the emotional meaning o...”
“Sociopath. A label given, and a title received. A definition adorned? Or perhaps a ribbon atop a word.”
“It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.”
“To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.”
“Emotion is the timbre of thought.”
“But a human being, she, she, cannot simply exist; she is a hurricane, every thought bending and crossing its coherence inside her, nothing will let her be, not for a moment. Every emotion, every th...”
“Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.”
“How very different it would be to live somewhere where people weren't afraid to reveal themselves, where emotion was prized instead of hidden.”
“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”
“Thus his belief was that in a service where feeling could be restrained it ought to be restrained. The power of God was more likely to be known in a solemn stillness than amid noise and excitement....”
