Emotion Quote by William James Download Open image “A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Emotion Human emotions Humans Nature of man Nonentity
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind -… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being — Margaret Floy Washburn Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James 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