“The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.” ThinkingKnowsMaySometimesMightCoursesIndividualEmotionCreativeBirdFlightInterfereSentimentalCreative PowerMigratory Birds Book:Survival Source: Survival
“The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.” WorldLoveFeelingsMovingLife IsEmotionCreativityCreativeOriginalsMeaning Of LifeSentimentalMoving OutInner FeelingsCreative Love Author:Old Tom Morris
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?” ThinkingWorldMindLooksUnderstandingSimplePowerfulEmotionEnvironmentInspireComplexesSentimentsSentimentalScience And ReligionScornUpbringingReductionReconcileWishful ThinkingMuddleReductionismDisparagingUnderstanding The World Author:Peter Atkins
“It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with honestly, with sufficient clarity, and detail.” LongStoriesFeelingsEmotionDetailsHonestlyClaritySufficientSentimental Author:Charles Baxter