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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

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MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

3.9 · 58 votes

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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

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Honore de Balzac

NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

3.4 · 44 votes · 125 reads

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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

3.6 · 50 votes

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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

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George Santayana

PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

3.2 · 63 votes

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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

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Marquis de Vauvenargues

WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

4.7 · 36 votes · 131 reads

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He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

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AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

5.0 · 36 votes · 135 reads

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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

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PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

4.1 · 51 votes · 120 reads

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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

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Elizabeth Bowen

WriterIrish1899 · 19th century

4.0 · 27 votes · 171 reads

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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the co

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NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

3.0 · 45 votes · 166 reads

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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
WriterGerman1844 · 19th century
4.8 · 33 votes · 54 reads
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Our emotions are only ''incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.
Susan Sontag
AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century
4.8 · 32 votes · 38 reads
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
4.0 · 6 votes · 155 reads
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
Henry David Thoreau
PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century
3.8 · 55 votes · 19 reads
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana
PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century
4.4 · 10 votes · 43 reads
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Charles Dickens
NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century
3.9 · 33 votes · 31 reads
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There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Carl Gustav Jung
PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century
4.3 · 63 votes · 51 reads
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We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Bertrand Russell
PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century
3.3 · 17 votes · 10 reads
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Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
Robert Bresson
Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century
4.5 · 38 votes · 165 reads
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