Action Quote by Alasdair MacIntyre

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only…

— Joanna Lumley

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

— Anonymous

“The concept of “Emotion” itself is an invention of the seventeenth century. Before that, scholars wrote about passions, sentiments, and other concepts that had…

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.

— Fujiwara no Teika

“If emotions were created for social creatures, did they cease to exist as soon as society disappeared?”

— Edward W. Robertson

“The idea of a priori moral judgements ('It is morally wrong to inflict gratuitous pain') is completely acceptable to the vast majority of human…

— William Boyd

But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !

— Daniel Goleman

“Since emotions are merely information, there are no good or bad, right or wrong emotions.”

— Marcey Shapiro

“Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.”

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“By emotion I mean the modifications of the body, whereby the active power of the said body is increased or diminished, aided or constrained,…

— Baruch Spinoza

“Emotions were only useful to control, survive and succeed”

— C.J. Roberts

“emotions were far from linear. They were circles and waves and dots and triangles. But they were rarely a straight line." Chapter 13 · Page 114 · Location 2031”

— Louise Penny