“True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.” IfsHeartEmotionDutyIntellectVainEnlightenedTrue Religion Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.” WayShowsFormArtistEmotionAudienceSubjectsDutyCalmExcitementInvolvementPouringOlympian Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.” GivingCertainSecretEmotionRightsMankindDutyFormerLatterUnconditionalImperativesBenevolenceConditional Author:Immanuel Kant
“The feminization of America has made emotions sacrosanct while condemning as cold and unfeeling rigorous concepts such as duty andhonor. Propelled by incessant hosannas to woman's "finer" this and "softer" that, we make emotional decisions instead of ethical ones and then congratulate ourselves for having "heart.” HeartMadeAmericaDecisionEmotionFeminismEmotionalDutyColdConceptsEthicalCondemningIncessantUnfeeling Author:Florence King
“Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.” WantSometimesCharacterStoriesMotivationEmotionDutyStoryteller Author:Hugh Jackman