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“Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a time in the future when we'll be ceaselessly happy and never have to fear negative emotions again. But in chasing all that, we close down the very faculties that permit the happiness we crave.”

Thinking Turns Emotion Knowing Positive Thinking Approach Negative Safety Certainty Related Faculty Permit Chasing Crave Negative Emotions

Author:Oliver Burkeman

“Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.”

Mind Humans Energy Imagination Emotion Healthy Mere Intellect Reasoning Proportion Faculty Human Mind Vigorous Grotesque Hardened Eminence

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.”

Art Real Desire Actors Acting Emotion Please Essence Dramatic Faculty Feminine Defects Facility Provinces Assimilation Artifice

Book:The Art of the Theatre

Source: The Art of the Theatre

“Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.”

Giving Reality Order Process Emotion Identity Fit Destruction Oneself Explanation Motive Faculty Justification Providing Attempting Distortion Cognitive Cover Ups

Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

“It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.”

Men Humans Whole School Emotion Elements Intuition Etc Faculty Divides Fallacy Old School Interconnected Parcel

Author:Alfred Korzybski

“What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.”

May Today Purpose Emotion Intellect Being True Faculty Cognitive Perplexity Mismatch

Book:The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature