“When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.”
Source: The Art of Seduction
“Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.”
Ch 2 : The Nature of Creativity, p. 49
The Courage to Create (1975)
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Robert M. Sapolsky
(1957) American endocrinologist
Emperor Has No Clothes Award acceptance speech (2003)
Context: I am a reasonably emotional person, and I see no reason why that's incompatible with being a scientist. Even if we learn about how everything works, that doesn't mean anything at all. You can reduce how an impala leaps to a bunch of biomechanical equations. You can turn Bach into contrapuntal equations, and that doesn't reduce in the slightest our capacity to be moved by a gazelle leaping or Bach thundering. There is no reason to be less moved by nature around us simply because it's revealed to have more layers of complexity than we first observed.
The more important reason why people shouldn't be afraid is, we're never going to inadvertently go and explain everything. We may learn everything about something, and we may learn something about everything, but we're never going to learn everything about everything. When you study science, and especially these realms of the biology of what makes us human, what's clear is that every time you find out something, that brings up ten new questions, and half of those are better questions than you started with.
“Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage: for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.”
Humanam impotentiam in moderandis et coercendis affectibus servitutem voco; homo enim affectibus obnoxius sui juris non est sed fortunæ in cujus potestate ita est ut sæpe coactus sit quanquam meliora sibi videat, deteriora tamen sequi.
Baruch Spinoza
book
Ethics
Part IV, Preface; translation by R. H. M. Elwes
Ethics (1677)
“His reasoning was emotional, and therefore simple.”
Murray Leinster
(1896–1975) Novelist, short story writer
Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 8 (p. 102).
Michel Henry
(1922–2002) French writer
Michel Henry, C'est moi la Vérité, éd. du Seuil, 1996, p. 291
Books on Religion and Christianity, I am the Truth. Toward a philosophy of Christianity (1996)
Original: (fr) Mais quand donc ce bouleversement émotionnel qui ouvre le vivant à sa propre essence se produit-il et pourquoi ? Nul ne le sait. L’ouverture émotionnelle du vivant à sa propre essence ne peut naître que du vouloir de la vie elle-même, comme cette re-naissance qui lui donne d’éprouver soudain sa naissance éternelle. L’Esprit souffle où il veut.
“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
Baruch Spinoza
(1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
“Never let your personal desires and emotions outcompete your reasoning capacity.”
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, P.51 (July 2018)
David Byrne
(1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music
Source: Bicycle Diaries
Brené Brown
(1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are