Quotes · Skopia

18 quotes

2016

★ 1.3

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Carl Jung

1921

★ 1.8

Novel

In the realm of the emotions, the real is indistinguishable from the imaginary.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters · 1925

★ 1.9

Speech

Life is not a thing of knowing only—nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

Learned Hand

1893

★ 1.9

Film · Film noir · Crime (film) · Crime

In the heat of action men are likely to forget where their best interests lie and let their emotions carry them away.

Kasper Gutman

The Maltese Falcon · 1941

★ 1.9

Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness.

Fred Rogers

2003

★ 1.9

Novel · Epistolary novel

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther · 1774

★ 2.0

Film · Action (film) · Comedy (film) · Action · Comedy

Maybe feelings are feelings because we can't control them.

Gary Johnston

Team America: World Police · 2004

★ 2.0

Film · Coming of age (film) · Drama (film) · Coming of age · Drama

I wanna do a lotta things that don’t make sense.

Chiron

Moonlight · 2016

★ 2.0

Film · Coming of age (film) · Drama (film) · Coming of age · Drama

Shit, I cry so much sometimes I feel I’m a just turn into droplets.

Chiron

Moonlight · 2016

★ 2.0

Essay · Magazine

It is not that the Englishman can't feel—it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks—his pipe might fall out if he did.

E.M. Forster

1920

★ 3.5

Novel

When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending · 2011

★ 3.5

Epigram

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections · 1678

★ 3.6

Novel

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!

Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls · 1842

★ 3.6

Novel

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 3.7

Treatise · Philosophical literature

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

David Hume

A Treatise of Human Nature · 1739

★ 3.8

Film · Martial arts (film) · Fantasy (film) · Martial arts · Fantasy

Repressing your feelings will only make them stronger.

Yu Shu Lien

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 2000

★ 3.8

Epigram · Philosophical literature

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal

Pensees · 1662

★ 7.3

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