"Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels."
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"The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm."
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"Women prefer emotions to reasoning."
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"In one word, this ideal is that you are divine."
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"Reason is the first victim of strong emotion."
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"You see, I think negative emotions are always trumped by positive emotions."
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"The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion."
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"I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system."
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"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."
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"I don't follow waves or trends or emotions."
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"Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination."
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
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"The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
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"It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good."
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"The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express."
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"Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism."
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"The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds."
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"if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives"
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"If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end."
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"Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion."
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