Quotes about Emotion

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Is it any wonder that I loved my regiment?

Love flies, runs, and rejoices. It is free and nothing can hold it back.

Why doth a little thing spoken against thee make thee sad? If it had been more, thou still oughtest not to be moved. But now suffer it to go by; it is not the first, it is not new, and it will not be the last, if thou live long. Thou art brave enough, so long as no adversity meeteth thee. Thou givest good counsel also, and knowest how to strengthen others with thy words; but when tribulation suddenly knocketh at thine own door, thy counsel and strength fail.

Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

What does Spinoza say in his Ethics? —"Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam." Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepet meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self.