“Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.”
Source: Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
“If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions.”
Source: Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles of the Christian Life
“Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")”
Source: The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
“Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not... Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!”
“The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth. But all of that is nothing if those words fail to touch the heart and make one feel.”
“If the landscape of human emotion were to exist in country, it would be in Italy." ~Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue”
Source: Amalfi Blue, lost & found in the south of Italy
“The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces— those, I think, are the sensations of grief.”
Source: Silently and Very Fast
“Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.”
Source: Love Over Scotland
“Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Songbook
“Today we are living the grotesque spectacle of the poisoning
of the earth by the nineteenth-century hero system of unrestrained
material production. This is perhaps the greatest and most pervasive
evil to have emerged in all of history, and it may even
eventually defeat all of mankind. Still there are no "twisted" people
whom we can hold responsible for this.”
Source: Escape from Evil