Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Ch 2 : The Nature of Creativity, p. 49
The Courage to Create (1975)
Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 8 (p. 102).
Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Ch 2 : The Nature of Creativity, p. 49
The Courage to Create (1975)
Christopher Caudwell (1907–1937) British Marxist literary critic, journalist and writer
Studies in a Dying Culture (1938), Pacifism and Violence: A Study in Bourgeois Ethics
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
On Writing Poetry (1995)
Context: I did not know that the rules about these things were different if you were female. I did not know that "poetess" was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know — yet — that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.
“Emotions are a cancer in one's path to the road of prosperity in life, Emotions Defeat Reason.”
Hamis Kiggundu (1984) Ugandan business magnate, Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author
Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, (July 2018)
“Emotions by their very nature are not reasonable things.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Emotion has taught mankind to reason.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
As quoted in Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.
“The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four
Source: The Sign of Four
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 29, June 10, 1943.