Quotations by Theme
Emotion - Reason
"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls."
Aeschylus, 525-456 BCE
"Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious."
Alan Moore,
"Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience."
Albert Bandura, 1925-
"To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behaviour therapist."
Albert Ellis, 1913
"Instinct is untaught ability."
Alexander Bain, 1818-1903
"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale."
Alexander Pope,
"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after."
Alexander Pope, 1688-1744
"Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment."
ALVIN TOFFLER,
"Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914
"Dawn, n. When men of reason go to bed."
Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914
"We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds."
Anais Nin, 1903-1977
"First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker."
Andrew Bernstein,
"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave."
Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919
"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world."
Anne Frank,
"Anger is a natural response when something you value is taken away from you. You may feel alone, isolated or not understood."
Anne Grant,
"Language is the source of misunderstandings."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1944
"Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions."
Aristotle, 384 BC-322BC
"Anyone can become angry, that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not easy."
Aristotle, 384-322 BCE
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
Aristotle,
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930
"Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control."
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860
"Compassion is the basis of all morality."
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860
"Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art."
Austin O'Malley,
"An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something."
Ayn Rand, 1905-1982
"If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a "moral commandment" is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments."
Ayn Rand, 1905-1982
"Sexual ecstasy usually arises among dyads, or groups of two, but the ritual ecstasy of "primitives" emerged within groups generally composed of thirty or more participants. Thanks to psychology and the psychological concerns of Western culture generally, we have a rich language for describing the emotions drawing one person to another--from the most fleeting sexual attraction, to ego-dissolving love, all the way to the destructive force of obsession. What we lack is any way of describing and understanding the "love" that may exist among dozens of people at a time; and it is this kind of love that is expressed in ecstatic ritual."
Barbara Ehrenreich,
"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."
Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
Baruch Spinoza,
"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."
Baruch Spinoza,
"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
Baruch Spinoza,
"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
Baruch Spinoza,
"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
Baruch Spinoza,
"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
Baruch Spinoza,
"Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for truth."
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
"Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one."
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody."
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes form society."
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.... This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me."
Bertrand Russell,
"The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know the hotter you get."
Bertrand Russell,
"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."
Bertrand Russell,
"Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free."
Bhagavad Gita,
"Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler."
Brand Blanshard, 1892-1987
"When emotions rise
The intellect dies
When the latter shines
The former pines
When in tandem
No more mayhem
Hence heart and head
Try to share a bed
So passion and reason
Can't psych up treason
But just be interwoven
Like stars up in heaven"
Brenda M Oldfield, 1953-
"You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."
C. S. Lewis, 1889-1963
"Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant."
Caecilius Statius, 220-168 BCE
"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves."
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832
"It can't be Nature, for it is not sense."
Charles Churchill,
"With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other."
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
"Subdue you appetites my dears and you've conquered human nature."
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
Charles Mackay, 1814-1889
"The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours."
Chauncey Wright,
"The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form."
Chauncey Wright,
"The wise are instructed by reason, ordinary minds by experience, the stupid, by necessity, and brutes by instinct."
Cicero, 106-43 BCE
"By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."
Claude Adrien Helvetius, 1715-1771
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
Confucius, 551-479 BCE
"Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now; the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart."
Confucius, 551-479 BCE
"The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave."
Cyril Vernon Connolly,
"The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history."
Czeslaw Milosz, 1911-2004
"It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experiencedt the undefinable menace of total rationalism."
Czeslaw Milosz,
"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindlyness with its brutality."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."
Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far."
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"So the ability to pause and to not act on that first impulse has become a crucial emotional skill in modern lives."
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"When people are feeling very upbeat, energized, happy, optimistic, there is a lot of activity in the left pre-frontal cortex."
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain"
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response."
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes"
David Chalmers, 1966-
"Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that."
David Chalmers, 1966-
"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."
David Hare, 1947-
"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."
David Hume, 1711-1776
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."
David Hume, 1711-1776
"Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure."
David Viscott, 1938-1996
"Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based."
Deepak Chopra,
"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
Don Marquis,
"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory."
Edgar Degas, 1834-1917
"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
Edward Abbey,
"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic."
Edward de Bono, 1933-
"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them."
Edward de Bono, 1933-
"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
Edward Hopper, 1882-1967
"One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception."
Edward Hopper, 1882-1967
"I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. I find any digression from this large aim leads me to boredom."
Edward Hopper, 1882-1967
"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."
Edward Thorndike, 1874-1949
"By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind."
Edward Walker,
"Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory."
Emile Cioran, 1911-1995
"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception."
Emile Coue, 1857-1926
"Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned."
Emile Durkheim, 1858-1917
"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."
Epictetus,
"A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually."
Erich Fromm, 1900-1980
"Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world."
Erich Fromm, 1900-1980
"Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man."
Erich Fromm, 1900-1980
"In fact, sensations of pleasure and pain, however faint they may be, really constitute an essential part of the content of all so-called emotions."
Ernst Mach, 1838-1916
"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligent quotient."
Eugene S. Wilson,
"In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind."
Eyvind Johnson, 1900-1976
"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."
Francis Bacon,
"Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory."
Francis Bacon,
"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels."
Francisco de Goya,
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680
"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680
"Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680
"Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself."
Franz Grillparzer, 1791-1872
"The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc."
Franz Kafka, 1883-1924
"Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence."
Friedrich Engels,
"Without the errors inherent in the postulates of morality, man would have remained an animal. But as it is he has taken himself to be something higher and has imposed stricter laws upon himself. He therefore has a hatred of those stages of man that remain closer to the animal state."
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
"Art renders the sight of life bearable by laying over it the gauze of impure thinking."
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
"There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason in madness."
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
"In everything one thing is impossible: rationality."
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
"In short, systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions."
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
"The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction."
Gabriel Marcel, 1889-1973
"Man is an imagining being."
Gaston Bachelard,
"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."
Gaston Bachelard,
"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."
Gaston Bachelard,
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
Gautama Buddha, 563-483 BCE
"Man lives in a world of meaning."
George H. Mead, 1863-1931
"I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold."
George Linnaeus Banks, 1821-1881
"Habit is stronger than reason."
George Santayana,
"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."
George Santayana,
"When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached."
Gottfried Leibniz,
"Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory."
Gottfried Leibniz,
"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety."
H. L. Mencken, 1880-1956
"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety."
H. L. Mencken,
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
H. L. Mencken,
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
H. L. Mencken, 1880-1956
"You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires."
H. Stanley Judd,
"When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium."
Hans Hofmann, 1880-1966
"Ignorance is the mother of fear."
Harry Homes,
"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
Henri Frederic Amiel,
"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive."
Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
"The way I devolved, moved out from, this position of strict cognitive nihilism, was with the idea of building a new culture."
Henry Flynt, 1909-
"The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties."
Henry Flynt,
"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
"The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason."
Herbert Read,
"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."
Herbert Spencer,
"Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought."
Hermann von Helmholtz,
"We continually find points of contact and comparison in our conceptions and feelings; we get to know the hidden capacities and desires of the mind, which in the ordinary peaceful course of civilised life remain unawakened."
Hermann von Helmholtz,
"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
Hippocrates, 460BC- 377BC
"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."
Horace,
"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."
Horace Walpole,
"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."
Immanuel Kant,
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804
"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
Immanuel Kant,
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
Immanuel Kant,
"And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five."
James Merrill,
"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891
"I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts."
Jasper Johns, 1930-
"Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth."
Jean de la Bruyere,
"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity."
Jean Dubuffet, 1901-1985
"Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity."
Jean Houston, 1937-
"Childhood is the sleep of reason."
Jean Jacques Rousseau,
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
Jean Jacques Rousseau,
"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures."
Jean Piaget, 1896 - 1980
"In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason."
Johannes Kepler, 1571-1630
"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open."
John Berger, 1926
"Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows."
John Betjeman,
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination—what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth—whether it existed before or not."
John Keats,
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
John Keats,
"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."
John Keats, 1795-1821
"Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding."
John Locke,
"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
John Milton, 1608-1674
"Law is born from despair of human nature."
Jose Ortega y Gasset,
"If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself."
Joseph Farrell,
"Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place."
Judith Wright,
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931
"Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?"
Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931
"That's one reason there's so much drug abuse: people are not shown other ways to alter their consciousness. All we have is the mall and the video rental shop; that's our cultural experience, our museums."
Karen Finley,
"Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa."
Karl A. Menninger,
"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."
Karl A. Menninger,
"Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought."
Karl Jaspers, 1883-1069
"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
Karl Marx,
"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."
Lao Tzu,
"There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination."
Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859
"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves."
Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."
Lord Byron,
"Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious."
Louis Althusser, 1918--1990
"Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?"
Louis Aragon,
"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."
Louis Aragon, 1897-1982
"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself."
Louis Aragon,
"Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work."
Louis Aragon, 1897-1982
"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
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