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“That’s what the history books say . . . but history books are written by the victors. The official history of emotion research, from Darwin to…

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

“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

“According to the “universality studies” conducted by psychologists Paul Ekman, Carroll Izard, and Friesen (1969-1972), the words Happiness. Fear. Anger. Sadness. Contempt. Surprise. Disgust.…

— Susan C. Young

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

“[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.”

— Anonymous

“What a potpourri of emotions are mixed up in this one. Passion, heartache, exaltation, distress, fascination, anguish, enchantment, remorse, jubilation, defeatism”

— Karl Wiggins

“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

Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.

— Alain de Botton

“Similarly, Massumi argues that while emotion is “a subjective content, the sociolinguistic fixing of the quality of an experience which is from that point…

— Sianne Ngai

The concept is to weave in some emotion.

— Carlos Santana

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

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

— Fujiwara no Teika