"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."
"Women prefer emotions to reasoning."
"In one word, this ideal is that you are divine."
"Reason is the first victim of strong emotion."
"You see, I think negative emotions are always trumped by positive emotions."
"The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion."
"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."
"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."
"I don't follow waves or trends or emotions."
"Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination."
"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
"The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
"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."
"The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express."
"Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism."
"The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds."
"if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives"
"If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end."
"Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion."