Emotion Quote by Paul Valery Download Open image “Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.” — Paul Valery ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Emotion Important Philosophy of Mind
“Emotions are virtually always responses to thoughts. That’s great news, because while it’s impossible to control an emotion once a thought has triggered it,… — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
The thing with our thoughts is that they become words and then actions, so it's important we observe them and choose them wisely. Our… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions. — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
“Thoughts create emotions, emotions create feelings and feelings create behaviour. So it’s very important that our thoughts are positive, to attract the right people,… — Avis Williams Copy Share Image
“The most important thing to remember, though, is that thoughts are devoid of any essence. In their own right, they have neither meaning nor… — Om Swami Copy Share Image
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will. — William James Copy Share Image
“Our thoughts are only illusions when they do not reflect who we really are, our emotions only wasteful when we are not seeing them… — Jeff Brown Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“I am now going to make an admission. I confess, I agree, that all these good people who protested, who laughed, who did not… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator. — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image