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The E designation. We heal the mind and the heart. Sorrow, fear, pain, we help people navigate their way out of darkness.
Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
...[D]eviance is an attributed designation rather than something inherent in individuals...
Emotions have no I.Q.
I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you ...
Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.
A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
[Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.]
Oh, it's called, em ... ' Kate thinks, 'I can't remember what it's called.'
'You're the same as me,' Dad says to her. 'You've got CRAFT too.'
'What's that?'
'Can't. Remember. A. Fuc-
Everyone just calls me Emby."
"Is that your choice, or theirs?" asks the Admiral.
"Well ... theirs, mostly-but I got used to it."
"Never let anyone else name you," says the Admiral.
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather than from a priori deduction. Empirical evidence never yields the dogmatic certainty that accompanies logical deduction.
Eccentric doesn't bother me. "Eccentric" being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.
In the immortal words of Mr. Burns ... eeeeexcellent.
Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is ...
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite
In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.
I don't like affectation.
A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.
The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell
Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.
somethingological
I don't know what you mean, but I know that you mean it.
(attrib: 'Edward', Appendix 2)
To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.
Relaxed Empiricism
I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
As it happens I've spent a night and a day going through your records. Fascinating stuff." Kempis took a roll of parchment from his cloak and tossed it onto the desk. "You know what really bugs me?" Enli steepled his hands. "I'm on tenterhooks." "Anolamies." "Anomalies?" "Them too.
Olympism ... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.
Empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.
anti-intellectual
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.
Expectant. My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it. I compose what I project will be seen as a
If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.
I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines.
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.
Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.
Intellectual effort for its own sake, they call eccentricity.
The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.
(M)ediocre, (O)bedient, (D)ependent, (E)ntertained, and (L)ifeless and
The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.
All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn;
Object of my implacable disgust.
Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.
Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing.
... a sussuration of expectation ...
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
Something which, for want of a more definite term at present, I must be permitted to be called queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical.
All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.
ennui - that dreaded mire of the human emotions.
Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
True eloquence has an edge, sharp and clean.
I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'
E smart, don't be a retard.
I'm an emotional person.
idiosyncrasy than
But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.
Emotional fuckwittage
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.
I'm crepuscular.
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.
Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.
The word should be thinkering.
Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings.
SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray
From the great source of mental Day,
Free, generous, and refin'd!
Descend with all thy treasures fraught,
Illumine each bewilder'd thought,
And bless my labour'g mind.
George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.
It's my choice now, no matter what the test says. Abnegation. Dauntless. Erudite. Divergent.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
I'd rather go with something eccentric
but beautifully eccentric.
inspirational,motivational
Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book.
The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ...
the pursuit of experience is the refuge of the unimaginative.
In her mind, Em was a deranged ballerina-child who smelled like bubblegum and only ate McDonald's Happy Meals.
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima!
Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.
materialism with emotionalism
Something made out of words...
It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
I am proud to be an emotionalist.
That which gives detailed analysis of anger-pride-deceit-greed and puts them aside and doesn't allow any clashes to occur at home, is known as intellect. It makes one do 'everywhere adjustment'.
This is Deirdre," said Addison. "She's an emu-raffe, which is a bit like a donkey and a giraffe put together, only with fewer legs and a peevish temper. She's a terrible sore loser at cards," he added in a whisper. "Never play an emu-raffe at cards. Say hello, Deirdre!
Everything is octopusied.
Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.
My eccentricity became direction.
I don't like the intellectual label.
I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.
Egotorial: An editorial in broadcasting or print media where the subject matter is secondary to the superficial, pretentious, antagonistic, or materialistic ego of the author.
If sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous", "hypogeum", "plangent", "irrefragably", "glozening", "tellurian", "conclamant", sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.
Mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism ... they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.
exasperating composure.