Dis proximus ille est,<br>quem ratio non ira movet. <br class="br"> Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli, lines 227-228 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Manlio_Theodoro*.html#227.
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
The New York Times October 15, 1986, MAN IN THE NEWS; WITNESS TO EVIL: ELIEZER WEISEL, By JOSEPH BERGER http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/15/world/man-in-the-news-witness-to-evil-eliezer-weisel.html
“anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate”
Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice
Source: Last Sacrifice
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), I : The Man of Flesh and Bone
Context: Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.
Walter Dill Scott (1869–1955) President of Northwestern university and psychologist
Source: The Theory of Advertising, 1903, p. 59
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 3 "Human Nature and Character
“He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”
Nathanael West book Miss Lonelyhearts
Source: Miss Lonelyhearts
