Philosophy Quote by John Wiley and Sons

“People who are more rational don't perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.”

— Jonah Lehrer

“One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems.”

— Joseph Heath

“Numerous experiments showed that people feel depressed when they fail to live up to their own ideals, but when they fall short of a…

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people.…

— Jon Ronson

“The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are…

— Marcel Proust

More rationale decreases subjectivity.

— Sol Sender

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't…

— Albert Ellis

I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

— Rollo May

Creative people are more prone to depression.

— Adam Ant

“Emotional people always make difficulties for themselves”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“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