“The instincts of man are so earth-bound that they shrewdly sense it whenever the approach of logic threatens them.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Five, Christian sources, p. 87
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Context: In this sense genuine artists are so bound up with their age that they cannot communicate separated from it. In this sense, too, the historical situation conditions the creativity. For the consciousness which obtains in creativity is not the superficial level of objectified intellectualization, but is an encounter with the world on a level that undercuts the subject-object split. "Creativity" to rephrase our definition, “is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his or her world.”
“The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason,”
Source: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Three, The Business Of politics, p. 67
Context: A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against
“A worthy man is bound to suffer malice and envy: a man grows in worth so long as he is envied.”
Hazzen unde nîden
daz muoz der biderbe lîden.
der man der werdet al die vrist,
die wîle und er geniten ist.
Source: Tristan, Line 8395