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The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.
Emotions are the colors of the soul; they are spectacular and incredible. When you don't feel, the world becomes dull and colorless.
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Emotions are choices.
The problem with feelings is neither that our moods fluctuate nor that our emotions seem to fail us. The greater dilemma is that most have only learned how to dance to one type of feeling.
Feelings aren't truth,
Feelings are not facts
Platitudes are poor substitutes for emotions, this negative space hollowed out and without words. I know the shape of you and it has no name. I know the sound of you and the smell of you and the touch and sight and taste of you. But language departed the same day you did, leaving my mouth empty.
Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise.
i would rather have
feelings without words
than words without feelings.
Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign
As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.
Emotions and the feelings are not a luxury, they are a means of communicating our states of mind to others. But they are also a way of guiding our own judgments and decisions. Emotions bring the body into the loop of reason.
Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.
Emotions are the colors of the soul.
If it's going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it's not a world that I want to live in.
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. The need to attach themselves makes wandering people strike roots in a day: wherever we unconsciously feel, we live.
He remembered the Professor's advice to his eager employees during his first year: With us, feelings are described through images, and in the world of television, there are only seven feelings: well-being, Schadenfreude, sentimentality, shock, outrage, disgust, and anger. Nothing else.
The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality
Opinions are a useless currency
Words, words, words.
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
There are some feelings, and actions, for which words are utterly useless.
Great thoughts come from the heart
My thoughts are loving and positive.
Words are the voice of the heart.
I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.
I think cynicism is more enduring than sentimentality.
As a human sentiment, it's touching to behold.
Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure.
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
How short a period often reverses the character of our sentiments, rendering that which yesterday we despised, today desirable.
Ideas are substitutes for sorrows; when the latter change into ideas they lose part of their noxious action on our hearts and even at the first instant their very transformation disengages a feeling of joy.
unfavorable feeling,
These are our precious things. Simple things. A currency of sentiments.
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own.
You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.
Opinions are like hearts. Everyone has one, but they are not ALL healthy.
Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink.
That most people think with their feelings, whereas I feel with my thoughts.
It's very difficult sometimes to put into words one's feelings, especially when one
is not quite certain what those feelings are. (Catherine)
The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy to evaluate actions and experiences according to the subjective emotions with which they are associated.
You feel, as you always do, what is most to the credit of human nature. - Such feelings ought to be investigated, that they may know themselves.
Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
feelings are programs; that is, they are learned responses that often have a purpose.
We need sentiment and skepticism. Sentiment to be happy; skepticism to be free.
Emotion is messy, contradictory ... and true.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
Reason speaks and feeling bites
Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence.
So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions ...
We appear to be saying something very important about
something: and actually we are only saying something about our own feelings.
Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.
Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. p.903
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.
We are not moved by reasons but by emotions
Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
Feeling are communicated by means of ideas, which are their intellectual equivalent; at the sound of the words conveying the ideas the appropriate emotion is evoked.
Emotion is the poetry of life.
An opinion is not a momentary thing but a process of thinking, shaped by the continuous acquisition of knowledge and the activity of questioning, discussion, and debate.
You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!
Sentimentality is a false sense of self.
I've fixed my feelings into durable words
when they could have been spent on tenderness
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.
All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
Words have the power to release pent-up emotions as well as to define them in rational and meaningful terms.
Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.
It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.
Crowds always, and individuals as a rule, stand in need of ready-made opinions on all subjects. The popularity of these opinions is independent of the measure of truth or error they contain, and is solely regulated by their prestige.
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
False emotions broadcast thru the Land
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.
Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us.
Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.
You mainly feel the way you think.Feel-- Albert Ellis
What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.
Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.
Everybody on this planet shares a handful of universal emotional realities: ambition, shame, alienation, loneliness, achievement, regret, hardship, friendship, love, heartbreak. We've all experienced it. The facts change, the feelings are the same.
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.
Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.
As our inclinations, so our opinions.
Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.
People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.
I do not see emotions and feelings as the intangible and vaporous qualities that many presume them to be. Their subject matter is concrete, and they can be related to specific systems in body and brain, no less so than vision or speech.