“In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.” IfsFirstsMayFeelingsRealityFallGroupsObjectsErrorsInstanceSymbolsObedienceAnalysisSignificanceAttributesPropositionsUnrealAdmittingUnreality Book:Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy Source: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
“It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.” WayMayArtStillsFeelingsLightPassionProjectsProgramGuidesFixedBranchesSensationsAttributesTransparentAgitationFranticWhirlwind Author:Octavio Paz
“I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsFeelingsImaginationKnow HowImagineExerciseAttributesHow You Feel Author:Larry Gelbart
“It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.” FeelsMayFeelingsSufferingEmotionEndurePainfulProofSufficientContentmentAttributesArmorResignationDisagreeableMorbid Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt