“I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.” MindPersonsMadeBookFeelingsYoungMark Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.” MindDoeUseFeelingsLightClearPoetSweetSourceMarkPensVariationBosomsNeedles Book:Festus: a poem Source: Festus: a poem
“Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human ken -- the Man bursts, in some unknown manner, the bars of non-existence, and announces with a cry the beginning of his brief life. In the night of non-existence there bursts forth also a little candle, lit by an unseen hand. Mark well its flame: for it is the life of that Man.” MenHumansWellsLittlesFeelingsHandsNightExistenceCryHe ManEternityMarkBarsRangeFlamesCandlePossessedUnseenLitWombNon ExistenceBrief Life Author:Leonid Andreyev
“However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the Automatists are when they say they haven't it. As in the night all cats are gray, so in the darkness of metaphysical criticism all causes are obscure. But one has no right to pull the pall over the psychic half of the subject only . . . whilst in the same breath one dogmatizes about material causation as if Hume, Kant, and Lotze had never been born.” IfsMayIdeasFeelingsNightCausesBornHalfDarknessSubjectsHavensMaterialsCatCriticismMarkBreathsWideGrayObscurePsychicsMetaphysicalInadequateEfficacyCausationHume Book:The Principles of Psychology Source: The Principles of Psychology
“Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the other. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives.” ThinkingWayFeelingsOrderOur LivesJourneyEmotionalHigherBenefitsMarkRationalOne WayTerritoryUnchartedUncharted Territory Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others