Art Quote by Daniel Goleman

I think of all emotions as just energy. If you see yourself separate from your thoughts, you can choose which ones you give meaning…

— Darren Hayes

The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I…

— Antonio Damasio

So, you can define emotions very simply as the process of perceiving what is going on in the organs when you are in the…

— Antonio Damasio

“No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“Emotions are the lowest form of consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, narrowing, dangerous form of behavior. The romantic poetry and fiction of…

— Timothy Leary

“Emotion is not just some "primitive" remnant of an earlier reptilian evolutionary past. Emotion directs the flow of activation (energy) and establishes the meaning…

— Daniel J. Siegel

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and…

— Marshall McLuhan

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that…

— Carl Sagan

“...empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011).”

— Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen

“Psychologists talk about the three parts of the mind: the cognitive (reason and other mental processes), the conative (the will), and the affective (feelings…

— Jim Manney

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects,…

— T. S. Eliot

Emotions are core to everything we do.

— Rana el Kaliouby